Evaluation and Research in Education
Editor: Professor Keith Morrison, Inter-University Institute of Macau
Associate Editor: Professor Stephen Gorard, University of York
Statistical Adviser: Professor Colin Baker, University of Wales Bangor
Reviews Editor: Dr. Emma Smith, University of York
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Volume: 17 Number: 2&3 Page: 101–111
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Australian Home Education: A Model
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John Barratt-Peacock
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If home education is not just school in another place, how can we conceptualise it and how does it work? This paper considers the peculiar set of relationships that characterise home-educating families and traces their extension out into the wider community. It further shows how, through the ongoing family conversation, experiences gained from domestic occupation and accompanied excursions into the field of authentic adult practice are problematised, built into the developing family worldview, and adapted by individual members for their own personal learning. It is proposed that a more useful model for home education characterises the family as a community of learning practice. Such a perspective views home education as the modern development of a tradition older than schooling in its response to the problem of secondary socialisation in a developed society.
Keywords: home education, Australia
© 2003 J. Barratt-Peacock
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