Canaries in the Coalmine
Australian Teachers Who Homeschool Their Children

Discover how Australian teachers who choose to homeschool their children construct their identities

Open Access: BY-NC-ND
Collection: Education Studies
Publication Date Available in all formats
ISBN: 9781916704640
Pages: 180

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How can the dual identity of “teacher” and “parent” influence the decision to homeschool in Australia?

Drawing from interviews with early childhood, primary, and high school educators who homeschool, authors Rebecca English and Gemma Troughton explore the ways their experience influences their understanding of themselves as both teachers and parents. Canaries in the Coalmine delves into the reasoning behind following an alternative education path, the approaches taken by home educators, and how they navigate the differences from mainstream education. This book also invites readers to consider the wider implications of this movement: what does this choice mean for schools, the community, and the teacher shortage?

This book is ideal reading for students and practitioners of Education, and Sociology, as well as Teachers, Policy Makers, Education Administrators, Home Educators, Parents, and Guardians.

Rebecca English is a qualified teacher, homeschooler, and Senior Lecturer at Queensland University of Technology.

Gemma Troughton is a teacher, homeschooler, and sessional Lecturer at Queensland University of Technology.

Open Access License

This book is published under an open license. You are free to use it under the terms of the [Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International license]1 (CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0). Any unauthorized use outside of this license is a violation of applicable copyright laws.

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About The Book

How can the dual identity of “teacher” and “parent” influence the decision to homeschool in Australia?

Drawing from interviews with early childhood, primary, and high school educators who homeschool, authors Rebecca English and Gemma Troughton explore the ways their experience influences their understanding of themselves as both teachers and parents. Canaries in the Coalmine delves into the reasoning behind following an alternative education path, the approaches taken by home educators, and how they navigate the differences from mainstream education. This book also invites readers to consider the wider implications of this movement: what does this choice mean for schools, the community, and the teacher shortage?

This book is ideal reading for students and practitioners of Education, and Sociology, as well as Teachers, Policy Makers, Education Administrators, Home Educators, Parents, and Guardians.

About The Author

Rebecca English is a qualified teacher, homeschooler, and Senior Lecturer at Queensland University of Technology.

Gemma Troughton is a teacher, homeschooler, and sessional Lecturer at Queensland University of Technology.

About Open License

Open Access License

This book is published under an open license. You are free to use it under the terms of the [Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International license]1 (CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0). Any unauthorized use outside of this license is a violation of applicable copyright laws.

Open Access Policy

We believe in equity and transparency with our partners, so we use a different approach to funding open access books.

  • 5% of all sales is set aside and pooled to fund author-choice open access publishing.
  • Every 6 months we track (and publish publicly) our average cost of production.

Open Access Approach

Any of our authors at Lived Places Publishing can opt in to having their book considered for open access publishing. If they opt in, they will forgo royalties on the open access products (royalties will still be payable on printed books).

For more detail on our approach to open access publishing, please see our Open Access Policy, which is available in the footer of every page on the website.

Open Access Titles

Here is the complete list of published and forthcoming open access titles.

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