Educating Homeless Children: Witness to a Cataclysm / Edition 1

by Rebecca Newman

Overview

Newman's ethnographic study considers the ways in which the family and school environments of eleven homeless school children affected their school performance. Homelessness is revealed to be multi-faceted, serving simultaneously as a cause, result, and potentiator of their families' problems. A variety of initiatives in the realms of policy, research, and practice are suggested for addressing the problems of these youngsters, as well as the problems of the many other extremely poor school children. First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815334750
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/31/1999
Series:	Children of Poverty
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	366
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Chapter I: In Search of the Stories of Homeless Schoolchildren, Chapter II: Homeless Families and Students in the Literature, Chapter III: An Ecological Approach to Research, Chapter IV: Six Families, Beginnings and Endings, Chapter V: Kara Mellon, A Case Study, Chapter VI: Jeffrey Ricks, A Case Study Chapter VII: Understanding How School and Family Contexts Constrain Student ,Chapter VIII: Modest Suggestions in the Face of Extensive Need Chapter IX: Witness to a Cataclysm.