ISBN-13: 9781138122932 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 234 str.
ISBN-13: 9781138122932 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 234 str.
This important book focuses on the critical role of educational achievement for the wellbeing and success of vulnerable youth in adulthood. Despite significant attention from policy-makers, outcomes for youth graduating from state care in Western countries have proven stubbornly resistant to improvement. Reviewing the range of different care regimes that have evolved in the West, this book considers the interdependence of care and education and the implications of this relationship for the state s parenting responsibilities. Using a theoretical framework informed by attachment and resilience theories, the concept of foundational rights and Coleman s focal model of adolescence, it addresses the dearth of theoretical work on vulnerable children s educational transitions to adulthood. In doing so, it balances predominantly needs-based discourses with a children s rights perspective. International in its scope, the book is woven through with findings from an original longitudinal qualitative study which records the experiences of young people aged 15-18, and the professionals working with them, at a critical time of transition in their personal and educational lives. It examines how social attitudes and public policy can serve to perpetuate vulnerable youth s marginalisation in respect of full equality of educational opportunity. It concludes with a thoughtful and incisive evaluation of how services could be developed to enable society s most vulnerable young people to fulfil their academic potential and lifelong aspirations. "