A Talk by Dr. Rebecca English
From the Homeschooling Global Summit
About this talk
Aussie mom, academic, and parenting expert Dr. Rebecca English shares incredible insights on why homeschooling can be considered as The pinnacle of all the decisions parents make for their child and as a family. This interview with her also gives us a glimpse of home education in the Australian context as compared to the US. Dr. Rebecca English is a researcher, teacher and mother whose work is concerned with parenting and education. She has an interest in the ways parents make choices for their children that align with their beliefs about family, parenting and other factors. Her work explores questions of how parenting practices and beliefs are enacted in families and how these practices and beliefs lead to parents making certain choices for their children. Rebecca has been teaching for 20 years. She has worked with a number of different schools teaching in the senior-secondary and middle years. In 2016, she co-edited her first book, Gender Considerations in Online Consumption and Internet Use. She continues to publish widely in academic and popular press. She has been interviewed for televsion programs such as The Project, ABC Mornings and SBS/Vice's short productions as well as dailies including the Sydney Morning Herald, Courier Mail and various other publications. This interview was presented at the Homeschooling Global Summit 2020. Learn more at https://2020.hgsummit.com/. To find out more about the organizing team behind the event, GalileoXP - the self-directed online global school, visit https://galileoxp.com/.
