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Research on Home Education
Every year new research papers on the subject of home education are published which continue to shed light on what is fast becoming a popular and effective form of alternative education. Although the outcomes and experiences of home educators are diverse, there are some shared experiences and benchmarks emerging which can be seen as common factors. Home education is blazing a trail that challenges the assumptions underpinning school-based education. • Why Families Homeschool by Beverley Paine is a list of reasons and characteristics drawn from research studies into home education: www.homeschoolaustralia.com/articles/reasons.html ,. • Glenda Jackson's comprehensive Summary of Australian Research on Home Education: http://hea.asn.au/hea/resources/HE_Research_Jackson.pdf is an extensive list of three decades of Australian research papers into home education. • More than One Way to Learn': Home Educated Students Transitions Between Home and School • The How and Why of Australian Home Education by John Barratt-Peacock BA., PGCE., BA., MSc, PhD, available through www.home-ed.edu.au . • Home Schooling and Legislated Education , by Terry Harding and Anne Farrell, • Investigating young children's perceptions of homeschooling by Donna Broadhurst: http://www.aare.edu.au/99pap/bro99413.htm . • Alan Thomas, 'Informal learning, home education and homeschooling', the encyclopaedia of informal education , http://www.infed.org/biblio/home_education.htm . • NHERI - National Home Education Research Institute is the premier American centre for research into home education. Publishers research conducted by Brian Ray, including papers on adults who were home educated. www.nheri.org • The Fraser Institute in Canada published a report called Home Schooling from Extreme to mainstream: www.fraserinstitute.ca/admin/books/files/homeschool.pdf • Homeschooling - Back to the Future? by the Cato Institute , 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: www.ontariohomeschool.org/oacas2.html • The USA Homeschool Legal Defence Association includes reference to many studies on their web site: http://www.hslda.org/research/default.asp . • Ann Zeise, includes a list of academic research papers on her website A to Z Home's Cool Homeschooling: http://homeschooling.gomilpitas.com/weblinks/research.htm • A search for 'research' on the UK's Education Otherwise website will turn up links to research studies completed in that country: www.education-otherwise.org . • Homeschool Works by Dr Lawrence Rudner, Director of ERIC Clearing House on Assessment and Evaluation http://www.hslda.org/docs/study/rudner1999/default.asp
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. Click here for a full list of articles and pages on this website. |
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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 was a committee member for three years during which time she edited and produced the HEA Newsletter, Stepping Stones for Home Educators magazine, annual Resource Directory and other HEA publications.
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