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Internet Use in Home-Education: Enablers and Barriers

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posted on 2023-05-22, 18:36 authored by Morrison, RM
Home educated students are Australia's fastest growing educational demographic. This growth may be due to the ubiquitous availability of resources made possible by the internet. This chapter considers several enablers and barriers to internet use in home education, using search engines as a case study. Search engine use is associated with several benefits and is the most prolific online activity conducted in home education. The chapter reports on a study into whether or not the search engine use of home educated students' (so-called digital natives) is stronger than that of their parent-educators (so-called digital immigrants). The study involved a survey of 60 parent-educators and observations, tests and interviews with five families. Irrespective of age, all searchers were found to use search engines in superficial ways. Findings can assist the growing number of Australians educating at home to maximise enablers while minimising any barriers to effective search engine use. Future research directions and the practicalities of existing literature for home-educators and students are also discussed.

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Publication title

Global Perspectives on Home Education in the 21st Century

Editors

R English

Pagination

200-228

ISBN

9781799866817

Department/School

Faculty of Education

Publisher

Global Perspectives on Home Education in the 21st Century

Place of publication

United States

Extent

16

Repository Status

  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Languages and linguistics; Pedagogy; Other education and training not elsewhere classified

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