By Bouwe van der Eems on Saturday, 25 August 2018
Category: Blog

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 one "right" way to home educate. Instead, they change their approach as they go along. Most families discover that they start out more structured in the beginning and become more flexible and relaxed as time goes on, being more eclectic in their approach. They adjust their method where needed and experiment until they find what works best for their child and the family in order to achieve their educational goals. This kind of flexibility and tailoring is one of the benefits of homeschooling.

The different educational approaches can be divided into broad categories.

Summary

Parents know best how their children learns. Every family is unique, so they uses the home education method that works best for them and their children. There is also no right or wrong way to home educate. With the freedom that home education provides, there is a renewed interest in these approaches. It is also important that policy makers are aware of these to ensure that policy on education makes provision for a diversity of educational approaches.

For more information on different approaches, looking at the pro's and con's of each and asking questions to help decide on an approach, the ABC on the website has a extensive article on homeschool approaches.

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