What is school like? An exploration of the experiences of school from the perspectives of adoptive parents and adopted children
An empirical study interviewed three adopted secondary-school children and analysed their accounts using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Themes concerned relationships, adoptive status and inclusion. Children described the importance of peer and staff relationships and having agency over disclosure of adoption. A separate review examined adoptive-parent accounts of school.
Limitations: The adoptee-centred empirical component contains only three children and cannot represent all adopted pupils. The parent-perspective review is a separate evidence source and is not presented as child testimony. The abstract does not specify participant recruitment regions.
- 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: Not recorded
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, identity
Review scope: Source checked: Abstract. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: United Kingdom
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