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.
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of Publication
12-1-2023
Volume
32
Issue
2
Publication Title
Australasian Journal of Gifted Education
Publisher
Australian Association for the Education of the Gifted and Talented
School
School of Education
RAS ID
62189
Copyright
subscription content
First Page
41
Last Page
58
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