Gifted and home-educated in Australia
Abstract
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 gifted as a reason for the child being home educated. Completed survey data returned by these parents/guardians were analysed. Thereafter, a sub-sample of these survey participants, comprising 16 parents/guardians of home-educated gifted children, were interviewed. Thematic and content analysis of all collected data indicated that the educational and emotional wellbeing of the child was a key motivator for home-educating. The reasons cited included the belief that there was a lack of provision of an appropriate curriculum, failure to appropriately differentiate and/or provide acceleration options, and a lack of understanding and ability to cater to the psychosocial and emotional needs of gifted students, in schools.
RAS ID
62189
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of Publication
12-1-2023
Volume
32
Issue
2
School
School of Education
Copyright
subscription content
Publisher
Australian Association for the Education of the Gifted and Talented
Comments
Slater, E., Burton, K., & Main, S. (2023). Gifted and home-educated in Australia. Australasian Journal of Gifted Education, 32(2), 41-58. https://doi.org/10.21505/ajge.2023.0014