This book draws together for the first time some of the most important international policy practice and research relating to education in out-of-home care. It addresses the knowledge gap around how good learning experiences can enrich and add enjoyment to the lives of children and young people as they grow and develop. Through its ecological-development lens it focuses sharply on the experience of learning from early childhood to tertiary education. It offers empirical insights and best practices examples of learning and caregiving contexts with children and young people in formal learning settings, at home and in the community. This book is highly relevant for education and training programs in pedagogy, psychology, social work, youth work, residential care, foster care and kinship care along with early childhood, primary, secondary and tertiary education courses.
Chapters in this book include:
A Holistic Approach to Educating Children in Care: Caring Schools
The “Perfect Score”: The Burden of Educational Elitism on Children in Out-of-Home Care
The Educational Progress of Children in Out of Home Care in the UK
School Readiness in Children in Out-of-Home Care
Fostering Success in Education: Educational Outcomes of Students in Foster Care in the United States
Strengthening the Evidence Base to Improve Educational Outcomes for Australians in Out-of-Home Care
Early Education as an Intervention for Children in Care
Breaking the Cycle of Disadvantage: Educational Needs of Out-of-Home Care Children in Hong Kong
We Can Do It and So Can Our Future Care Leavers! Care Leavers at University