Exploring Boarding School Challenges for Women and Third Culture Kids

Worlds Away from Home
Herausgeber: Devereux, Linda; Moxey, Nicky

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Through personal testimonies, this book offers insights into the boarding school experiences of women and Third Culture Kids (TCK), examining the particular challenges for those who are sent away from their families and all that is familiar to board in a country that feels worlds away from home.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032876313
• ISBN-10: 103287631X
• Artikelnr.: 71746619

Autorenporträt

Nicky Moxey, an ex-boarder, originally spent 33 years as a project manager and Agile coach. She is retraining as an integrative counsellor and intends to work with boarding school survivors after she qualifies. Linda Devereux is a third culture kid with more than 40 years of teaching experience in schools and universities. Linda is an Adjunct Research Fellow at Charles Sturt University, Australia, where she researches and publishes in the fields of transcultural childhoods, life narrative, boarding school and the transition to university.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Stepping from denial into curiosity: Boarding school
through an attachment-trauma lens 3. Transcultural Childhoods, Third
Culture Kids and Boarding School 4. Personal Stories 5. Insights from the
personal testimonies - Gendered experiences of childhood boarding 6.
Insights from personal testimonies: Third Culture Kids and boarding school
7. Coming Home (a therapist's view) 8. A safe haven