How I started home schooling: founding stories of mothers who home school their children

Reasons for home educating in Australia: who and why?

“…Analyses of the influences on guardians' decisions to home educate each child they were currently home educating resulted in four emerging themes: social and emotional wellbeing, developmental difference, curriculum and standards and life style choices. The theme of social and emotional wellbeing included some concerns in relation to school environment which overlapped with research conducted in America (Redford et al, 2017) and Israel (Neuman & Guterman, 2019). This included "bullying" as a form of violence, previously reported by Varnham (2008), but excluded any concern from this Australian sample relating to the use of and/or access to drugs in the mainstream education system in Australia.…”

“…In a recent study, Neuman and Guterman (2019) interviewed 25 Israeli mothers who home educated their children and had at least one primary-school age child. They reported the reasons for home educating in four major themes: "educational situation", where the parents viewed mainstream education as unable to meet their child's needs; "deliberate change", where parental ideology was key in decision making; "opportunity", where life circumstance led to home education; and "flow", where no deliberate decision was made to home educate, but rather there was a continuation of learning at home that evolved into home education when it exceeded the time the child reached school age.…”

Understanding the Initial Stories of Families Preferring Homeschooling: A Narrative Study

“…The equivalent number is 80,000 in the United Kingdom (Blok & Karsten, 2011), 50,000 in Canada, 30,000 in Australia, and 400 in Israel (where it was only 60, 20 years ago; Neuman & Guterman, 2016). As the numbers of families wanting to home school their children have been increasing each year, countries such as the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Portugal, and Italy have placed this on a legal basis (Neuman & Guterman, 2019). However, homeschooling in Turkey is a term that has no legal basis and is not well known in society.…”

“…Although there is diversity in terms of methodology, the research generally focuses on the reasons why homeschooling is preferred (Anthony & Burroughs, 2010; Collom, 2005; Guterman and Neuman, 2017, 2018; Kunzman, 2017; Neuman & Aviram, 2003, 2008; Rothermel, 2011). As Neuman and Guterman (2019) stated, the reasons reported by the existing research for choosing homeschooling may include cultural, religious, political, economic, and pedagogical reasons. However, the most important reason in the studies conducted by Olsen (2008) and Spiegler (2010), was found to be pedagogy.…”

“…However, the most important reason in the studies conducted by Olsen (2008) and Spiegler (2010), was found to be pedagogy. Although Spiegler underlines the concept of curriculum in his research, Neuman and Guterman (2019) emphasize that this can be placed under the concept of pedagogy. In addition, families having children with special needs (Morse & Bell, 2018) or gifted children (Jolly & Matthews, 2017) prefer homeschooling, as they believe that their children’s educational needs will otherwise not be met or that schools offer limited opportunities.…”