Miranda Mosier-Puentes, Marcelo Diversi

Aging Out of the Foster System (eBook, PDF)

Youths' Perspectives

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Aging Out of the Foster System: Youth's Perspectives provides a crucial and important narrative of the lived experiences of young people leaving foster care.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040226407
• Artikelnr.: 72276353

Autorenporträt

Miranda Mosier-Puentes is Assistant Professor of Child, Youth, and Family Studies in the School of Social Work at Portland State University. Her research is interdisciplinary, drawing from education, social work, and gender studies, and her publications focus on youth aging out of the foster system, social class and educational access, and the relational experiences of first-generation college students.

Marcelo Diversi is Professor of Human Development at Washington State University Vancouver. He is the co-author, with Claudio Moreira, of Betweener Autoethnographies: A Path Towards Social Justice (2018), which was awarded the 2019 Best Book Award from the Ethnography Division of the National Communications Association. He has authored dozens of articles in leading qualitative inquiry journals focusing on issues of marginalization, oppression, exclusion, social justice, decolonialization, and critical inquiry.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction to Aging Out: What do we know, and whose stories shape our
knowing? 2. A. Martínez: My story isn't finished 3. Brenden: Resisting
labels and reforming systems 4. Cid: Looking back on aging out 5. Hannah:
Aging out in just one day 6. No Day: "I share my experiences with foster
care on the daily" 7. Oliver: The emphasis was on getting foster youth to
the house 8. Tony: You never age out entirely 9. Conclusion Appendix A
Appendix B