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4.4.1 Homeschooling the Gifted: Experiences from Australian and Chilean Contexts

Homeschooling for gifted students has become an option for families in the last two decades. This research sought to analyze and compare the decision process carried out by the families of gifted students and understand the effect of homeschooling in two countries: Australia and Chile. A qualitative methodology that focused on 20 case studies was used. The results found push factors related to negative school experiences that left families with no other option; in many cases, withdrawal from school was lived as a healing process, both emotionally and cognitively, for students and families.

Author(s):

Maria Leonor Conejeros-Solar
leonor.conejeros@pucv.cl
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso
Chile

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Professor, Psychologist, Doctor in Education at the School of Pedagogy of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. Among her duties, she has served as the Director of the Academically Talented Education Program BETA in the same University. Her main research interests are academically talented students from underprivileged socioeconomic backgrounds, gifted college students, provisions and socio-emotional issues of gifted and twice-exceptional students and gifted homeschooling. She has published several articles and book chapters.

Susen Smith
susen.smith@unsw.edu.au
University of New South Wales
Australia

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Has three decades of leadership, teaching, and research experience from pre-K to tertiary and a diverse teaching background from Early Childhood, Primary, Secondary, Gifted and Special Education, Education for Sustainability, TESOL, to Aboriginal Studies. Her research interests include: Differentiating pedagogy for gifted students, including underachievers, using dynamic cognitive and affective taxonomies. She has been invited as a visiting scholar to Columbia University, CUNY, Hong Kong University, National Taipei University of Education, and Imperial College, London, is published internationally. Has keynoted at national and international conferences. She is currently editing the Giftedness and Talent Development in the Asia-Pacific Springer International Handbook.

 



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