Displaced and Dispossessed: Reconceptualizing Education for Children in Care

• In Event: 66.088 - Sheraton Roundtable 13 - Osgoode Ballroom
  In Roundtable Session: 66.088-1 - Learning Against Oppressive Structures

Abstract

The number of children in care in Canada is at epic proportions. Children in care perform at lower rates academically and have far lower graduate rates than children not in care. As children in care enter our schools at increasing rates and experience poor school success—displaced from their homes and then dispossessed from schooling—it is of dire importance to understand how to better support these children in policy and in practice. Drawn from a larger study, this presentation will share the findings of a qualitative research project in which critical theoretical perspectives are used; hermeneutically analyzing participants’ responses to convey their attempts at ethical engagements with children, illustrating the centrality of reconceptualist understandings of children, relationality and hospitality.

Authors

• Melanie D. Janzen, University of Manitoba

• Kathryn Ann Levine, University of Manitoba

• Dawn L. Sutherland, University of Winnipeg