- Title
- Muddling upwards : The unexpected, unpredictable and strange on the path from care to high achievement in Victoria, Australia
- Creator
- Wilson, Jacqueline; Golding, Frank
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/156054
- Identifier
- vital:11412
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55639-4_7
- Identifier
- ISBN:978-1-13755639-4; 978-1-13755638-7
- Abstract
- Education is a key avenue to personal, social and economic success; and its lack can lead to lifelong deprivation and social exclusion. The chapter focuses on the specific educational challenges that confront children in out-of-home care (OHC), and those who have been discharged from Care as young adults. A very small percentage of care leavers complete education, and some of the core reasons for this are discussed. The two authors, themselves care leavers, provide emblematic case studies by recounting their own experiences. They conclude that many of the obstacles they had to surmount were, and are, common to care leavers of their generations and also those currently in OHC. The chapter closes with a brief summary of policy reforms necessary to ensure educational equity for care leavers. © The Author(s) 2016.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Relation
- Young People Transitioning from Out-of-Home Care: International Research, Policy and Practice Chapter 7 p. 135-154
- Rights
- Copyright © The Author(s) 2016.
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Society; Education; Out-of-home care (OHC); Children; Social exclusion; Deprivation; Victoria; Australia
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