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Bouwe van der Eems and his wife Debbie have been homeschooling their five children since 2000. Bouwe is actively involved in the Association for Homeschooling and the Pestalozzi Trust and has taken part in various meeting with Department officials since 2004. With his family he has been running the SAHomeschoolers website since 2010.

Home education provides diversity and adaptability


Many people, including policy makers think of home education as a mom teaching her children the same way at home as the teacher teaches learners at school. Although this is one approach there are many other approaches available to homeschooling parents which are not used in mainstream schools. This gives home education diversity and adaptability. Most families do not follow one approach or method to the letter as there is no...

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Steamrolling a policy of chaos and conflict


In the week of 16 July 2018 the Pestalozzi Trust received information that the Department of Basic Education (DBE) planned to push through the new policy on home education without consulting the homeschooling movement. Although the consultation process cannot be viewed as meaningful by any stretch of imagination, the DBE attempts to create a perception that an extensive consultation process was followed. A flawed consultation process In 2014 and 2015 the...

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Legal & Research

Research on Home Education

Research on home education consistently proves that home learners

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Homeschooling and the law

Home schooling was recognized in 1996 in the SA Schools Act.

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History of homeschooling in SA

History of home education in South Africa (Wikipedia article)

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Centres

Learning centre overview

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Start a Learning Centre

Important considerations when starting a learning centre

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Find a learning centre

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Homeschool ABC

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Approaches

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Beginning

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Pestalozzi Trust

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