Succeeding Together?: Schools, Child Welfare, and Uncertain Public Responsibility for Abused or Neglected Children

by Kelly Gallagher-MacKay

Growing attention has focused on the education of children in the child welfare system, particularly those in foster care, but ninety-two percent of children in the child welfare system stay with their parents and their educational needs receive little attention.

Succeeding Together?

is an institutional ethnography that analyses front-line accounts from mothers, teachers, and child welfare workers to explore the educational...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442650648
• ISBN13: 9781442650640
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher