Canaries in the Coalmine

ISBN 9781916704640

Table of contents

  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Abstract
  • Warning
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 What is homeschooling anyway?
    • Learning objectives
    • Introduction
    • What is homeschooling?
      • Rebecca’s story
    • How to categorise homeschooling
      • Accidentals versus deliberates
      • Styles of homeschooling
        • Traditional
        • Classical
        • Stages of the Trivium
        • Charlotte Mason
        • Montessori homeschooling
        • Project and unit-based
        • Unschooling
        • Steiner/Waldorf homeschooling
        • Faith-based
        • Eclectic
    • Is homeschooling a shadow or analogous education?
      • Shadow education
      • Analogous education
    • Statistics on registration and homeschooling in Australia
      • Bringing it all together
  • 2 Our homeschooling teacher participants
    • Learning objectives
    • Introduction
    • Microschools, small school closures, and problems in the institutionally aligned space
    • Pulling parents into homeschooling and pushing parents out of school
  • 3 Homeschooling versus traditional school: They are not the same thing
    • Learning objectives
    • Introduction
    • Why are teachers homeschooling their own children?
    • Why do teacher families say they homeschool?
    • The biggest push factor in the choice to homeschool
      • Gemma’s story
      • Our teachers challenged the idea of “school refusal”
  • 4 What do these data tell us about “school choice?”
    • Learning objectives
    • Introduction
    • Homeschooling as a school choice
      • Why do people choose home education?
    • Homeschool challenged their beliefs about quality teaching and learning?
    • Bringing it all together
  • 5 Why would I want my child in that environment?
    • Learning objectives
    • Introduction
    • Previous experiences with homeschool
    • Previous experiences in schools
    • How do they report their experiences?
    • Bringing it all together
  • 6 Tipping points
    • Learning objectives
    • Introduction
    • Teachers’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic around policies and procedures
    • Finding joy in homeschool, in spite of its challenges
    • Bringing it all together
  • 7 Where to from here?
    • Learning objectives
    • Are teachers who homeschool isolated?
    • The system
    • The curriculum
    • Alternative options
    • Not just for teachers: A note on homeschooling
    • Positive outcomes
    • Bringing it all together
  • References
  • Index