Otherways: Home Education Network

Educating Your Child at Home

By Jane Lowe and Alan Thomas
Australian Distributor: Allen and Unwin
Price $39.95
Reviewed by Susan Wight
Educating Your Child at Home is a great introduction to home education for new home educators and families enquiring into home education. It clearly explains what home education is and how it differs from school education. It also outlines the different methods [...]

House with Study

This article appeared in The Sunbury Telegraph and was reproduced in Otherways 115.
House with Study: A New Meaning
Class in, it’s home sweet school
For Sunbury’s Brown family, the world is their classroom and every minute is a chance to learn.
The 10 children, who range in age from one to 18, have been home-schooled by mum Karen [...]

News from America

In Otherways 116 we reported that a Californian court recently ruled that parents have no constutional right to homeschool their children. The court decision was based on this ominous quotation from a 47-year-old case, “A primary purpose of the educational system is to train schoolchildren in good citizenship, patriotism and loyalty to the state and [...]

Preston Leader Article

The Rebecchi family of home educators were featured recently in May 08 in an article in the Preston Leader.http://www.prestonleader.com.au/article/2008/05/05/34511_ptv_news.html

Otherways – Issue 115 – February – April 2008

Special Feature: – Home Education and Divorce

Divorce-Proofing Your Children By John Peacock
Home Education and Family Seperation By Wendy Thompson
Home Ed in the Family Court By Susan Wight

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Articles:

What to Do When a Homeschooling Journey Comes to an End by Christine Alcott
I was Home Educated and Just Didn’t Know it By Elaine Edwards
Don’t Quake Conjugate By [...]

Don’t Quake, Conjugate!

Teaching a Foreign Language
By Danielle L Schultz
Home-educators are a confident bunch, but a lot of us quake when we think about teaching a foreign language. After all, most of us don’t speak another language ourselves, even if we put in time during our own school years. Even if we’ve managed to avoid foreign languages, maybe [...]

Homeschool Dance Class – Discovering Dance 2008

[ 14 April 2008; 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm. 21 April 2008; 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm. 28 April 2008; 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm. 5 May 2008; 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm. 12 May 2008; 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm. 19 May 2008; 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm. ]
This is an invitation to join a group of young people exploring and enjoying the wonderful world of dance.

I am a qualified dance teacher and have studied and taught dance in a variety of settings for about 15 years. I love to encourage students to explore a range of movements while practicing safe dance techniques.
The [...]

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