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Educational Experiences of Hidden Homeless Teenagers: Living Doubled-Up book cover

1st Edition

Educational Experiences of Hidden Homeless Teenagers Living Doubled-Up

By Ronald E. Hallett Copyright 2012
160 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
Homeless youth face countless barriers that limit their ability to complete a high school diploma and transition to postsecondary education. Their experiences vary widely based on family, access to social services, and where they live. More than half of the 1.5 million homeless youth in America are in fact living "doubled-up," staying with family or friends because of economic hardship and often... Read more

1. Introduction

2. Resilience and Homeless Youth

3. Entering their Lives and Homes

I. Shared Residences

4. Isaac’s Long Shot

5. Juan Dreams Big

II. Merged Households

6. Kylee Goes with the Flow

7. Marco Plans to be Average

III. Analysis and Implications

8. Influence of Residential Structure

9. Implications for Policy and Practice

10. Epilogue

 

Biography

Ronald E. Hallett is an Assistant Professor of Education at the University of the Pacific and a Research Associate in the Center of Higher Education Policy Analysis at the University of Southern California.

"Hallett's ethnographic study of teens living "doubled-up" provides a thorough and compassionate exploration of the complex nature of educational participation for youth experiencing residential instability."  ― P. M. Del Prado Hill, Buffalo State College, CHOICE

"In Educational Experiences of Hidden Homeless Teenagers: Living Doubled-Up, Hallett succeeds in identifying
risk and protective factors that increase or decrease a doubled-up adolescent’s chance of achieving educational
resilience." ― Erin Nicole Johnson, Journal of Youth and Adolescence

 

 

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