Entry Title: " Home Education in Tasmania"
Name: Jackie Dewe Mathews, United Kingdom
Category: Professional, Family


Entry Description: The subject of home education brings out incredibly strong reactions in people, dividing them down fiery lines of opinion. After all it is their children’s lives they are debating. Those against it think home educators are putting their child at risk and damaging their future prospects. They are preoccupied with the lack of socialisation, believing it leaves the child unprepared for the real world. Those who are advocates can be almost religious in their passion and devotion to it as a way of learning, believing any parent who does not chose to home educate is being neglectful of their parental responsibilities.

Jackie Dewe Mathews was born in London in 1978. Following a degree in philosophy she spent five years in the film industry as a freelance camera assistant on feature films and commercials. Her interest in cinematography informs her documentary photography practise which she was able to develop during the MA in Photojournalism at London College of Communication in 2007. Since graduating she has had work published in the Saturday Telegraph Magazine, the Sunday Times Magazine, the Gay Times and Fotografe Melhor (Brazil). In 2008 she was awarded the Joan Wakelin bursary for a social documentary project for her story proposal on albinism in Tanzania, which she shot in November and December 2008.