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Research on Home Education
The How and Why of Home Education by John Barratt Peacock Glenda Jackson has complied a very thorough summary paper on research on home education in Australia as well as her latest thesis called "‘More than One Way to Learn’: Home Educated Students’ Transitions Between Home and School". If you come across any links to research on home education on the internet please email Beverley and she'll include them below. From the UK: Thanks to Marina for compiling the following list of links.
The Why and How of Australian Home Education by John Barratt-Peacock, Latrobe University, 1997 This PhD Thesis investigates the methods and the reasons behind homeschooling in Australia. Homeschool Research Overview - A Guide to Significant Research About Homeschooling from Around the World - a comprehensive summary of over 300 research studies into homeschool from around the world, compiled by Australian homeschooling father, Martin Howard in 2003. NHERI - National Home Education Research Institute is the premier American center for research into homeschooling. They have a wealth of information available from their site. The following are Fact Sheets containing snippets and brief statistics about homeschooling. A Sampler of Homeschool Research The Fraser Institute in Canada published a report called "Home Schooling from Extreme to mainstream". "Investigating Young Children's Perceptions of Homeschooling" Interview based research from 1998 where children were asked about their views and experiences of home education. Homeschooling - Back to the Future? Published by the Cato Institute, Policy Analysis No. 294, January 7, 1998. examined the growing numbers of home educated children attending Universities and concluded that home education could produce superior results at a fraction of the cost to the state. Beverley Paine is a mother of three young adults and a prolific writer of homeschooling articles and has published several titles. More articles and essays can be found in her books, available from the Always Learning Books online bookstore. |
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Home education is a legal alternative
to
school education in Australia.
State and Territory
governments
are responsible for regulating
home
education. Different states have different
requirements, however home educating
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and learning programs to suit the
individual
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Pioneering members of the home education movement in Australia, Beverley and Robin Paine are passionate advocates of true educational choice for families. They began homeschooling their children in 1986 and three years later started the South Australian Home Based Learners network.
Beverley wrote Getting Started with Homeschooling in 1995-97 and since then continues to write books and booklets on home education. She balances spending time helping home educators with working in her garden and renovating her home, as well as continuing to build her collection of writing on a variety of homeschooling subjects. Beverley maintains an extensive collection of websites as well as several Yahoo groups supporting families teaching their children at home.
In 2007 Beverley joined the HEA and became a committee member in 2008: she also edits and produce the HEA Newsletter, HEA magazine, Stepping Stones for Home Educators, annual Resource Directory and other HEA publications.
If you'd like to keep in touch with what Beverley is up to her in her life, sign up for the Homeschool Australia Newsletter or visit her Homeschool AustraliaFacebook page.