Datasets for "The voices of home educated adolescents: a participatory research study exploring their home education experiences" PhD project

This dataset relates to the PhD study, "The voices of home educated adolescents: a participatory research study exploring their home education experiences". The study is a participatory research project with young people aged 13–17 who are home educated. They used vlogs, blogs, or visual boards to collect data on their experiences of being home educated, with a particular focus on their perceptions of their educational outcomes and social development.

The dataset includes resources created by participants, including a vlog, three blogs and three visual boards.

The vlog is an insight into how playing video games is an opportunity of learning for the participant: it demonstrates his interest in historical events and weaponry. Furthermore, the research project and creating the vlog itself was a new experience for him and was seen as a learning opportunity and became integrated into his home education experience. To align with the research methodology and remain socially and culturally appropriate, the participant used this method of data collection as an insight into his lived experience as home educated. Home educated young people have the autonomy and flexibility to learn through various mediums and learning tools that interest and relate to them. Therefore this vlog demonstrates that doing research with children can include various data collection methods that relate to the child's lived experience.

The visual boards are representations of participants' experiences being home educated and their perceptions of their educational outcomes. The blogs are a collection of thoughts or diary entries of their experience being home educated.