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Marta McCabe

Academic Consultant, Arc
Duke University
4 East Campus Union Dr., Durham, NC 27708
4 East Campus Union Dr., Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications


Empowering and Supporting Heritage Language Learners

Journal Article The Language Educator · 2023 Link to item Cite

The gift of homeschooling: Adult homeschool graduates and their parents conceptualize homeschooling in North Carolina

Journal Article Journal of Pedagogy · June 1, 2021 Although still a marginalized practice, homeschooling is on the rise internationally and across socio-economic groups. Moreover, the current Covid-19 pandemic has shifted additional attention to homeschooling. However, much of the available research is pri ... Full text Cite

Homeschooling mothers: Precarious by choice?

Journal Article Human Affairs · January 1, 2021 This article presents the findings of a study on homeschooling in Czechia. It focuses on the gender aspects of this uncommon educational decision. Based on forty-three individual interviews with homeschooling parents, the article's unifying thread is inter ... Full text Cite

‘Twofold otherness’: on religion, spirituality, and home schooling in the Czech Republic

Journal Article Journal of Beliefs and Values · October 1, 2020 In the Czech Republic, home schooling is an increasing but still rare education practice. The country is at the same time not favourable to public demonstrations of religion. In such a specific context, we investigated the intersection of religion, spiritu ... Full text Cite

Czech and Slovak Mothers Struggling to Maintain Children’s Heritage Language in North Carolina

Chapter · December 27, 2016 "Fourth-wave immigration, with its vast economic, ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and religious diversities, have brought new dynamics into the existing social and demographic structures and added both opportunities and challenges to ... ... Cite

Transnationalism and language maintenance: Czech and Slovak as heritage languages in the Southeastern United States

Journal Article International Journal of the Sociology of Language · March 1, 2016 This qualitative study examines heritage language maintenance goals, motivation, and strategies in eleven Czech and Slovak immigrant families in the Southeastern United States. The goals of this article are threefold. First, this article outlines the chang ... Full text Cite

Patrick Studer and Iwar Werlen: Linguistic diversity in Europe: current trends and discourses

Journal Article International Journal of the Sociology of Language · January 1, 2016 Full text Cite