Research by the Scottish Home Education Forum
- Taking Local Authorities to Task: An investigation and critique of Local Authorities’ data protection policies and practices in relation to the withdrawal of children from school for elective home education in Scotland (October 2020)
- Survey: Post-lockdown parental intentions (August 2020)
- Home Truths: An investigation into local authorities’ home education policies, practices and relationships with home educators in Scotland ISBN 978-1-5272-5927-0 (March 2020)
- Home Truths – Summary Report (March 2020)
- Home educators’ experiences of the health visiting service in Scotland (2019)
- Reasons for school-age children being in home education (2018)
Home Education Research
Centre for Social Mobility, University of Exeter
Written evidence to Westminster’s Education Select Committee, focusing on England and Wales.
Dr Paula Rothermel
- Comparative performance of schooled and home educated children (2015 presentation)
- The later the better – the argument for a later school-starting age (Oslo HEMT, 2014)
- Home Educated Children’s Psychological Well Being (2012)
- Comparison of Home and School-Educated Children on PIPS Baseline Assessments (2004)
- Can We Classify Motives for Home Education? (2003)
- Home-Education: Aims, Practices and Outcomes (University of Durham, 2002)
- The third way in education (2000)
Dr Alan Thomas
Dr Thomas’s research (UCL Institute of Education) focuses on home education, mainly based on 150 in-depth interviews and many extended observations of families in the home. Author of Educating Children at Home, Cassell, 1998; Co-author of How Children learn at home, Thomas and Pattison, Bloomsbury, 2007.
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Free to Learn – Alan Thomas – Informal and autonomous home education: a valid alternative (2017 presentation, European Colloqium ‘Free to Learn?’)
