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Reasons why parents home school in Australia: A national survey and a review of 2018-2022 registrations
Issues in Educational Research, Vol.34(3), pp.906-927
2024
Abstract
An increase of parents choosing to home school their children within Australia and changing motivations to do so, has been suggested, however national figures of home school student registrations have not been available and quantitative data is minimal, resulting in a risk of unvalidated assumptions informing the industry. Our study collated a national student registration figure for home education within Australia covering the years 2018-2022 and showing percentage increase and a growth rate exceeding other schooling options. In addition, we modernised the Enrolment Motivation Questionnaire (Collom, 2005) updating it for theoretical developments to investigate the motivations of Australian parents who choose home schooling both pre and post-Covid. This analysis revealed two significant differences: after the advent of Covid, parents were motivated to home school their children due to school absences and child's health, compared to before Covid. We discuss the finding that home education is currently the fastest growing schooling modality in Australia and how parents' schooling choice is changing to be more child-centric, offering factor analysis results which support this addition.
Details
- Title
- Reasons why parents home school in Australia: A national survey and a review of 2018-2022 registrations
- Authors
- Rebekah Couper (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Health - PsychologyTerry Harding (Corresponding Author) - Queensland University of Technology
- Publication details
- Issues in Educational Research, Vol.34(3), pp.906-927
- Publisher
- Western Australian Institute for Educational Research Inc.
- Date published
- 2024
- ISSN
- 1837-6290
- Copyright note
- Published under a Creative Commons licence: Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0)
- Organisation Unit
- School of Health - Psychology; Student Services and Engagement
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991186945802621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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