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Mental health, identity and informal education opportunities for adolescents with experience of living in state care: a role for digital storytelling.
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Cambridge Journal of Education . Dec2021, Vol. 51 Issue 6, p713-732. 20p. 1 Chart. - Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- The mental health difficulties and educational trajectories of adolescents with care-experience is a pervasive international concern. This article explores how digital technologies can facilitate self-reflective dialogues and informal education opportunities for adolescents with care-experience. Extracts from vlogs created during an ethnographic project working with adolescents (n = 10, six males and four females, M age = 15.3 years, age range: 14–18 years) and carers (n = 35, ages and gender not sought) in four English residential homes are thematically analysed. Three major themes were constructed: richness of everyday identity; complexities of in care identity; and renegotiating narrative traumas. Themes illustrated how engagement with a blended intervention (featuring digital and face-to-face elements) created opportunities for trusted adults to support the mental health, identity and educational needs of adolescents with care-experience. The paper concludes by critically discussing the educational implications for those working with this group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *MENTAL health
*IDENTITY (Psychology)
*TEENAGERS
*DIGITAL storytelling
*ETHNOLOGY
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0305764X
- Volume :
- 51
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Cambridge Journal of Education
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 154225555
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2021.1919057