Fostering Risk or Resilience: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Campus-Based Support for Students with Experience in Foster Care

• In Event: Educational Pathways for Undocumented, Latinx, and Foster Youth

Abstract

Through critical discourse analysis this study examines how campus support program websites construct the identity of students with experience in foster care through discourse. An analysis of nine program websites suggest that discourse can reproduce or resist dominant narratives that socially construct the identity of students with foster care experience.

Author

• Angela Hoffman-Cooper, Colorado State University