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Reasons Why Australian Parents Choose Home Schooling for Their Children: A Qualitative Investigation
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Direct linkTerry Harding; Rebekah Couper – Issues in Educational Research, 2025
This research examines the reasons why parents choose home schooling -- a growing educational phenomenon in Australia. A phenomenographic analysis of qualitative data gave a rich and detailed voice to those motivations. Six categories of description summarised the findings. Parents cited both push and pull factors that contributed to their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Attitudes, Home Schooling, Decision Making
