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HSLDA Senior Counsel and Director of Global Outreach, Michael Donnelly, hosts a podcast focused on homeschool leaders from around the globe presenting on how homeschooling is growing in their countries and the challenges they face moving forward.
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Carlos Vinícius Reis has played a key role in Brazil’s homeschool movement. He is the Director of Institutional Relations at ANED Brasil (National Homeschooling Association of Brazil) and is the one who spearheaded the first Expo for Homeschooling in Brazil. In this episode, Mike and Vinicius discuss what’s happening with homeschooling in Brazil right now and they continue last week’s conversation about Brazil’s first national homeschool conference.
Gustavo Borges and his wife are new to homeschooling but have embraced the movement helping to organize the first ever Expo for Homeschooling in Brazil. Mike and Gustavo discuss his homeschooling journey, reflections on organizing and experiencing Brazil’s first national homeschool conference, and homeschooling in Brazil as the Senate continues discussion on legally recognizing homeschooling.
Sameera is a homeschool mom to four children and is actively involved in her homeschool community in the United Arab Emirates. In this episode, Sameera shares about her homeschool story, how she uses her YouTube channel, Parhai by Samz, to help other parents with their homeschool journey, and what living in the United Arab Emirates is like as a homeschool mom, an ex-pat, woman, and individual.
Homeschooling was illegal in Namibia when Monja Gouws decided to homeschool her children. However, Monja had a strong desire to homeschool her children and found a way to do so by registering a school for one. Tune into this episode to learn more about Monja’s homeschooling story as a parent and one of the founders of The Homeschool Association of Namibia, what homeschooling in Namibia is like today now that it is legally recognized, and more!
Joanna Merrett is a researcher working on her Ph.D. in the UK. In this episode, Joanna shares how her background in early education led her to home education and what she has discovered about home education through her research projects. She also discusses the Schools Bill, which seeks to impose a mandatory register on homeschoolers, with Mike Donnelly.
Back in April, we spoke with Alberto Solano who is a homeschool leader, businessman, and homeschool dad to five homeschool graduates. In this episode, Mike connects with Alberto's daughter, Marian Ramsey and Marian’s husband, Jordan Ramsey, who is also a homeschool graduate. Find out how homeschooling shaped Marian and Jordan as individuals and benefited them in their relationship with their family and each other.
Alexandre Moreira joins Mike to discuss Brazil's path to legalizing home education and speaks on his personal experience in the Brazil Ministry of Education; his involvement with the homeschool movement, and his fight for freedom to homeschool in Brazil as the "icebreaker ship" not just for homeschooling families but for all families and the general freedom of educational choice in Brazil!
Join Mike as he talks with Chris Cordeiro and Bouwe Van Der Eems from South Africa. Learn about the history of South Africa and the amazing growth of homeschooling and discuss how can homeschooling transform families and cultures? Chris, Bouwe, and Mike will discuss this and other fascinating questions!
Homeschooling communities have to be organized and ready to defend their freedom because, as our guest puts it: "We are often the first ones under the steamroller." Join Mike Donnelly and Scottish homeschooling parent and advocate, Alison Preuss to talk about her homeschooling journey in Scotland, and what it takes to defend homeschooling freedom!
Agnė Kundrotienė is co-founder and president of the Lithuanian Homeschooling Association and a key participant of Lithuania's homeschooling legalization work that re-legalized homeschooling in 2019. Agnė discusses the process of re-legalizing home education in Lithuania and details how the Global Home Education Conference hosted by the Global Home Education Exchange encouraged her in her fight for homeschool freedom in Lithuania.
From school teacher to homeschool mom and advocate for homeschooling in Bolivia, Dorcas Ross joins Mike Donnelly in discussing the structure and environment surrounding education in Bolivia and what she is doing to further the homeschool movement.
Alberto Solano is a homeschool leader, businessman, and recently graduated homeschool dad to five children from Mexico. Choosing to homeschool his children required ‘a leap of faith’, but making this decision has allowed Alberto to discover the value of homeschooling and moved him to become actively involved in the fight for homeschool freedom today. In this episode, Alberto shares about his homeschooling journey, how he is trying to advance homeschool freedom in Mexico and around the globe with Mike Donnelly.
Peter Costea is a Houston-based lawyer who came from Romania when it was under Communist rule. With the help of other like-minded folks, Peter launched a pro-family movement called the National Renaissance Alliance (ARN) that advocates for Christian values, parental rights, and family values. Mike Donnelly sits down with Peter to hear how he left Romania, his connection to homeschooling, and about homeschooling in Romania!
What would you give up to homeschool your children? Would you leave everything? Your home? Your career? Your family? The Romeikes are modern day pilgrims who gave up all of that and more to follow their conviction to homeschool. They are true homeschooling refugees. Don’t miss this powerful moving interview with this heroic couple, Uwe and Hanne Romeike, who feel that they have gained far more than they lost as they sought freedom to homeschool.
Godfrey Kyazze is the founder of Homeschoolers Uganda Group (HUG), a pioneer of homeschooling in Uganda, and a homeschool dad to four children with his wife. Mike Donnelly sits down with Godfrey to discuss Uganda as a country and to learn about Godfrey’s vision for homeschooling in his homeland.
Emi Tolgyes-Busz is a homeschool mom to three boys with a diverse background as a missionary teacher, lawyer, and lawyer-linguist. Today, she continues to use her legal expertise to fight for homeschooling freedom in Hungary and shares about the changes she hopes to see in the Hungarian homeschooling environment with Mike Donnelly.
Ignasi Callizo is the General Director of OIDEL, an NGO that supports freedom and education and is trying to influence international policy in favor of homeschooling. In this episode, Ignasi shares about his Catalonian identity and dives into a wide-ranging discussion about the freedom and right to education through a legal, international, and philosophical lens with Mike Donnelly.
Sílvia Cópio joins Mike Donnelly to talk about home education in Portugal. Sílvia is actively involved in home education as a homeschool mom and advocate. Sílvia is President of Movement for Freedom in Education in Portugal and serves as the GHEX Europe Regional Committee Chair. Sílvia is married to Paulo Cópio and a homeschool mother of three boys.
Mike Donnelly sits down with Tim Chen, the founder of Taiwan Homeschool Advocates (TAH) to discuss the homeschooling environment in Taiwan. Tim shares how he became actively involved in Taiwan’s homeschool community and how homeschooling made it possible for him and his wife to provide their children a multicultural and multilingual learning experience.
Robert Bortin's joins Mike Donnelly in this week's episode of Homeschooling Around the World! Robert is a homeschool graduate and now a homeschool dad and CEO of Classical Conversations. Robert is dedicated to advocating for and serving the homeschool community in the United States and globally. To date, Classical Conversations is serving more than 50 countries!
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