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Direct linkSheng, Xiaoming – Education and Urban Society, 2018
Home education is at an early stage for the public, researchers, media and educational authorities in China. Yet the research relating to the development of home education has been entirely ignored. In particular, the literature focusing on the legal status of home education is negligible in the educational context of China. There is no literature…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Home Schooling, Educational Legislation, Compulsory Education
Archie Thomas – Critical Studies in Education, 2024
Schooling has been a site of harm for Indigenous people in settler colonial contexts, as a tool of dispossession, assimilation and separation from country and kin. However, schools have simultaneously been sites to work against this and build alternatives to settler colonial systems that nourish Indigenous futures. This article centers the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Colonialism, Educational Policy
Download full textJackson, Glenda; Allan, Sonia – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2010
Home education provides valuable educational and developmental opportunities for children. An examination of Australia's research indicates many best educational practices, including more informed mediation, contextualised learning, and opportunities to exercise autonomy. Key features include learning embedded in communities and program…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Childrens Rights, Fundamental Concepts, Educational Research
Varnham, Sally; Squelch, Joan – Education and the Law, 2008
Education is both a right and a responsibility. International instruments such as the "International covenant on civil and political rights" and the "International convention on the rights of the child" affirm the right of all children to education. This right is spelt out in the education legislation of all states and…
Descriptors: School Choice, Home Schooling, Responsibility, Childrens Rights
Jackson, Glenda – Issues in Educational Research, 2007
Home education is a well established phenomenon in Australia but little is known about the movement of students between home schooling and formal education and how students view and handle the transitions. A sociocultural theoretical framework has been used to explore student perceptions of their transition experiences between formal education and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Home Schooling, Conventional Instruction
Taylor, Peter; Tomlinson, Derrick – 1984
Extensive fieldwork and a questionnaire were used to study the population served by primary distance education (k-6), the perceived needs of home tutors, and the adequacy of support services provided by distance primary schools in New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia, and the Northern Territory. The fieldwork phase found two major types…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Classification, Correspondence Study, Delivery Systems
