355 Pages
by
Routledge
366 Pages
by
Routledge
355 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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.
Biography
Rebecca Newman
