?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=A+study+of+parents%E2%80%99+conceptions+of+their+roles+as+home+educators+of+their+children&rft.creator=Harding%2C+Terrence+John+Arthur&rft.subject=home+education%2C+home+schooling%2C+homeschooling%2C+distance+education%2C+home+educator%2C+parents+as+educators%2C+parents%2C+phenomenography%2C+Queensland%2C+Australia%2C+conceptions%2C+roles%2C+parent+roles&rft.description=Home+education+is+a+growing+phenomenon+in+Australia.+It+is+the+practice+whereby+parents+engage+in+the+full+time+education+of+their+children+at+home.+This+study+used+a+phenomenographic+approach+to+identify+and+analyse+how+home+educating+parents+conceive+of+their+roles+as+home+educators.+Data+analysis+presented+an+outcome+space+of+the+parents%E2%80%98+qualitatively+different+conceptions+of+their+roles+as+home+educators.+This+outcome+space+exemplifies+the+phenomenon+of+the+roles+of+parent+home+educators.+This+thesis+reports+on+the+qualitatively+different+ways+in+which+a+group+of+27+home+educating+parents+viewed+their+roles+in+the+education+of+their+children.+Four+categories+of+description+of+parent+home+educator+roles+emerged+from+the+analysis.+These+parents+saw+themselves+in+the+role+of+a+(1)+learner%2C+as+they+needed+to+gain+knowledge+and+skills+in+order+to+both+commence+and+to+continue+home+education.+Further%2C+they+perceived+of+themselves+as+(2)+partners%2C+usually+with+their+spouse%2C+in+an+educational+partnership%2C+which+provided+the+family%E2%80%98s+educational+infrastructure.+They+also+saw+themselves+in+the+role+of+(3)+teachers+of+their+children%2C+facilitating+their+education+and+development.+Finally%2C+they+conceived+of+themselves+as+(4)+educational+pioneers+in+their+communities.+These+four+categories+were+linked+and+differentiated+from+each+other+by+three+key+themes+or+dimensions+of+variation.+These+were+the+themes+of+(1)+educational+influence%3B+(2)+educational+example%3B+and+(3)+spirituality%2C+which+impacted+both+their+families+and+the+wider+community.+The+findings+of+the+study+indicate+that+home+educators+experience+their+roles+in+four+critically+different+ways%2C+each+of+which+contributes+to+their+family+educational+enterprise.+The+findings+suggest+that+home+educators%2C+are+bona+fide+educators+and+that+they+access+parental+qualities+that+provide+a+form+of+education+which+differs+from+the+educational+practices+characteristic+of+the+majority+of+Australians.+The+study+has+the+potential+to+generate+further+understandings+of+home+education+for+home+educators+and+for+the+wider+community.+It+may+also+inform+policy+makers+in+the+fields+of+education%2C+social+welfare%2C+and+the+law%2C+where+there+is+a+vested+interest+in+the+education+and+welfare+of+children+and+families.&rft.publisher=Queensland+University+of+Technology&rft.date=2011&rft.type=Thesis&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.relation=https%3A%2F%2Feprints.qut.edu.au%2F40931%2F1%2FTerrence_Harding_Thesis.pdf&rft.rights=free_to_read&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.relation=https%3A%2F%2Feprints.qut.edu.au%2F40931%2F2%2FTerrence_Harding_Citation.pdf&rft.relation=Harding%2C+Terrence+John+Arthur+(2011)+A+study+of+parents%E2%80%99+conceptions+of+their+roles+as+home+educators+of+their+children.+PhD+thesis%2C+Queensland+University+of+Technology.&rft.id_number=https%3A%2F%2Feprints.qut.edu.au%2F40931%2F&rft.identifier=Faculty+of+Education%3B+Office+of+Education+Research