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This curated and regularly updated guide is a trust resource for home educating families. Designed to save you time, reduce overwhelm, and build confidence, it brings together books, websites, organisations, and tools that support learning outside of school.
Rather than prescribing what your children should be doing, this directory supports you as the educating parent — offering ideas, inspiration, and pathways you can adapt to suit your family’s needs, interests, and rhythms.
Whether you’re looking for local meetups, online discussion spaces, or broader networks of support, the Support Groups Directory helps you find your people and build connection on your own terms.
Thoughtfully compiled, it helps you find local and online support groups where connection, shared experience, and encouragement matter just as much as resources.
This huge collection of links brings together websites, programs, tools, and ideas that support learning across ages, interests, and stages. Regularly updated as new resources are discovered, this is a living guide you can return to again and again.
We designed this attractive A4 printable colour flyer with simple explanations about Home Education for you to share with friends and family, or send to your local Member of Parliament, give to your child's therapists, etc.
Please distribute and share widely.
A comprehensive and extensive list of three decades of Australian research papers into home education by Australian research Glenda Jackson. Last updated 2017.
Beverley Paine offers a decade by decade description of her involvement with the home education movement in Australia, including a glimpse into their personal home educating life.
Some states (not all) require an interview in the home as part of the home education registration application, and again when the registration is due for renewal. I have created this guide to help you be prepared for the interview.
10 Things I'd Tell My Younger Self About Homeschooling, Learning, and Family Life
Advice from an older, more experienced, wiser Beverley, written at the end of 18 years of home educating to her younger self. E-book, 17 pages.
Beverley Paine shares her thoughts about deschooling in this short e-book:
- what it is
- list of useful deschooling links
- how she deschooled herself
Young adults share their thoughts about being home educated during childhood.
In the early 2000s Beverley asked a cohort of young people who had been fully or partially home educated a series of questions about their thoughts about their experience. The collection of answer are presented in this e-book, together with a summary of the findings they reveal.
There are so many books about home education out there! Beverley Paine started this list a couple of decades ago and it continues to grow! All of her favourite authors - and more - on her favourite subjects - homeschooling and unschooling.
Download this free literature unit study that accompanies Beverley Paine's YA Sci-fi novel, The Chimaera Conspiracy. The main themes focus on the ethical limits of science and the struggle for personal autonomy.
Bioethics and Genetic Modification
Identity and Self-Determination
Corporate Greed, Environmental and Technological Isolation
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"Whenever I read your writing I always come away with increased confidence in my ability to provide and share a wonderful learning journey with my family. Thank you!" Maaike, VIC
"Your words and all the resources you share are like a lighthouse, especially for those of us at the beginning stages." Michelle B, WA
We know what it’s like to have doubts, to make mistakes, spend money we don’t have buying resources we never used. We know we all start in more or less the same space and how it feels to leave mainstream education to embark on this awesome adventure. Scary, right? But you’re not alone. Let Beverley help you.
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