Exploring the Educational Experiences of Children and Young People Adopted from Care: Using the Voices of Children and Parents to Inform Practice
Interviews with eleven secondary-aged adoptees and a focus group with six adopters explored school experiences. Analysis identified themes of emotional difficulty, social disconnection, school responses, relationships and prejudice. A second phase discussed these findings with twenty designated teachers to consider implications for school support.
Limitations: A small qualitative sample cannot estimate how common these experiences are. Themes combine child and adult material and should not all be attributed exclusively to adoptees. This thesis and the 2021 journal article arise from the same research. Regional recruitment is not specified in the abstract.
- Research type
- Doctoral thesis
- Source reviewed
- Abstract
- Peer reviewed
- No
- Age group
- Adolescents
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: Adolescents
Adoption context: Mixed adoption pathways
Programme: Best adopted children education study
Institutional context: No relationship identified in the material checked
No adoption-sector organisational relationship identified from metadata reviewed. Funding and conflicts were not comprehensively audited; this is not confirmation of institutional independence.
Bibliographic screening. Bibliographic relationships are not a bias or safety rating.
Topics: adoptee voice, adoption stigma, education, post-adoption support
Review scope: Source checked: Abstract. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: United Kingdom (regional recruitment not established)
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