What is Home Education?

On this page is a collection of articles I've written over the years trying to explain the nature of home education, how it differs from school based education, and some thoughts about home education in general. You'll also notice some links to information about research about home education.

About Home Ed : Research : Media & Interviews

Download and print What is Home Education, a handy free 3 page flyer you can give to friends and relatives who ask you about homeschooling.

Don't forget to take a look at The Educating Parent Resource Directory which contains an introduction to home educaiton and brief information on how to get started, as well as comprehensive (and growing!) list of homeschool educational suppliers and providers.

See Contents for a list of all the categories of articles on this site.

Related: Reviews: Books about Home Ed

ABOUT HOME EDUCATION

• About Home Education
• A Thousand Rivers: what the modern world has forgotten about children and learning, Carol Black, off-site article
• A Radical Educational Alternative for our Family
• At Their Own Pace: Meeting Standards the Homeschool Way
• Are You Ready?
• Are Virtual Schools the Future of Homeschooling?
• Are Newcomers Calling Homeschooling Unschooling?
• Can I pay my friend to homeschool my kids
• Changing Nature of Home Education
• Confused by all the Aussie Home Ed sites?
• Cyber Schools, a looming reality?
• Debunking Myths about Homeschooling
• Defining What We Do
• Deschooling
• Do you need formal teaching qualifications to homeschool?
• Does Homeschooling Work?
• Easy as ABC
• Evaluating Children's Progress and Keeping Homeschool Records
• Exploring Homeschooling Diversity
• Famous Home Educated People
• Getting Started with Home Education
• Gold Standard in Education? May 2025
• I was Home Educated
• Is Enrolling your Child in a Virtual School Still 'Homeschooling'?
• Home Educating is Empowering Ann Leach
• Home Education: Lifestyle Choice, Not a Religion
• Home Education on the Rise, The Conversation
• Home Educating Families 'Flying Under the Radar'
• Homeschool Help is Available from Experienced Home Education Consultants
• Homeschooling in Practice: What Homeschooling Means for the Children
• Homeschooling in Practice: What it Means for the Parent, part 1
• Homeschooling in Practice: What it Means for the Parent, part 2
• Homeschooling Makes Sense
• Home school or home education?
• Homeschool Parents are Learning Partners
• Homeschooling Schools?
• How do you know it's time to homeschool?
• How Many Instruction A Day?
• Massive Surge in Interest in Home Education, Tamara Kidd
• New to Homeschooling? A quick guide to the Homeschool Australia suite of websites.
• Practical Considerations
• Redefining Education Using Information Technology in the Twentyfirst Century
• So, You Want to Homeschool... Start by Defining Education
• Stop Comparing: Why Your Child's Learning Journey Is The Only One That Matters
• The Big Picture: Looking For The Perfect School
• The Ten Habits of Successful (Homeschool) Organisms
• What Exactly Is Homeschooling?
• Why I Chose Home Education for my Children
• What does Home Education look like? Tamara Kidd
• What is Homeschooling?
• What is a Home Education Curriculum
• What is Unschooling?
• What is Wrong with Schools?
• What is Your Homeschooling Life Like?
• Why Families Homeschool
• Why Haven't School Reforms Worked, why I think schools are failing our children
• Why I think you need to write an individualised and personalised home education curriculum for your child
• Will your children home educate their children?

See also Getting Started and Write Your Own Curriculum

RESEARCH

• Growth in Home Education Registrations for every State and Territory in Australia 2019 and Why is Homeschooling Is A Growing Market May 2020, Stuart Chapman
• NHERI Celebrates 30 years, by Rebecca Ray
• Research on Home Education
• A Study of Parents' Conceptions of their Roles as Home Educators of their Children, by Terry Harding
• Summary of Australian Research on Home Education by Glenda Jackson

INTERVIEWS AND HOME ED IN THE MEDIA

• Homeschoolers in the Media Links
• 2020 Schooling Discoveries Interview with Beverley
• 2004 Interview, Beverley and son, Thomas
• Another Interview with Beverley
• Are Parents Without Formal Teaching Qualifications Equipped to Home Educate their Children?
• Beverley Paine on Home Education and Unschooling, an interview 2014
• Favourite Quotes on Education
• Growing Up In My Family
• I was Home Educated
• South Australian Media Interview with Beverley Paine, 2011
• Newspaper Interview with Beverley, 1998
• Unschooling Interview with Beverley, February 2015
• What the Children Think About Homeschooling - an open questionnaire