Unaccompanied Homeless Youth: Intersections of Homelessness, School Experiences and Educational Policy

Autor/in	Aviles de Bradley, Ann M.
Titel	Unaccompanied Homeless Youth: Intersections of Homelessness, School Experiences and Educational Policy
Quelle	In: Child & Youth Services, 32 (2011) 2, S.155-172 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0145-935X
DOI	10.1080/0145935X.2011.583176
Schlagwörter	Homeless People; Disadvantaged Youth; High School Students; School Districts; Educational Policy; Access to Education; Youth Problems; Classification; Runaways; Caring; Human Services; Family Environment; Qualitative Research; Parent Child Relationship; Student Rights + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Homeless person; Homeless persons; Obdachloser; Benachteiligter Jugendlicher; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; School district; Schulbezirk; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Ausreißer; Care; Pflege; Sorge; Betreuung; Humanitäre Hilfe; Familienmilieu; Qualitative Forschung; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung
Abstract	School districts are faced with the challenge of how best to serve the needs of a growing homeless student population. As the numbers of homeless children and youth continue to rise, it is imperative for educators and others to understand the experiences of unaccompanied homeless youth. A qualitative research project was undertaken to obtain the perspectives of six high school students experiencing homelessness. These perspectives illuminate the various and multiple factors intersecting with student's educational lives. Their narratives uncovered the following themes: (a) Homelessness as a misnomer, (b) Homelessness is not a choice, (c) Caring adults, and (d) Student agency. Their counternarratives challenge adults working with unaccompanied homeless youth to rethink and reimagine the manner in which homelessness is understood and framed; this is especially critical in educational spaces. Schools often are the primary contexts in which youth spend their time and can be instrumental to providing youth experiencing homelessness with the support and resources they identify as being critical to their educational engagement and success. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10