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Tebeje Molla; Amin Zaini; Hossein Shokouhi; Ruth Arber – Australian Journal of Education, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic caused significant educational disruption globally. When the pandemic forced schools to switch to emergency home-schooling, parental engagement in education became more critical. Some parents found home-schooling as an opportunity to form stronger relationships with their children. Others acquired an enhanced insight into…
Descriptors: Migrants, Parent Attitudes, Experience, Barriers
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Conejeros-Solar, Maria Leonor; Smith, Susen R. – Australasian Journal of Gifted Education, 2021
Homeschooling has been a growing movement worldwide since the 1970s and a research topic for the last 30 years in Australia. Despite this body of knowledge, no studies have focused specifically on gifted homeschooling in this country. Using a qualitative approach, 10 mothers of 10 gifted children were interviewed; data were analysed using…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Home Schooling, Foreign Countries, Mothers
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Slater, Eileen; Burton, Kate; Main, Susan – Australasian Journal of Gifted Education, 2023
A recent survey of the home-education community in Australia sought to identify the reasons why parents/guardians made the decision to home educate their children (Slater et al., 2022). Within the broader sample of 385 parents/guardians of 676 currently home-educated children in Australia, the parents/guardians of 81 children cited the child being…
Descriptors: Gifted Education, Home Schooling, Foreign Countries, Parent Attitudes
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Fahraeus, Eva R. – Educational Technology & Society, 2004
Distance education has been offered to young students in Australia for about 100 years. Recently, information and communication technology has been introduced as a means to improve communication, but not all remote students have access to this new technology. This has made it difficult to arrange collaborative learning for distance-education…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Access to Computers, Educational Technology, Foreign Countries