| Autor: |
Barwick, Melanie A. (Melanie Anne) |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
1992 |
| Předmět: |
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| Druh dokumentu: |
Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Popis: |
This case study examines the educational needs of students attending two social affairs schools in Quebec. The aim was to determine why these youths continue to do poorly academically and why they fail to thrive once they leave the child welfare system, as described in the literature. Individual and environmental factors that hinder academic progress were investigated ethnographically. The chronic under-achievement characteristic of youths attending the social affairs schools appears to be due to a number of individual factors such as frequent school changes as well as to the mental health model that guides the social affairs schools. This model views educational difficulties to be secondary to psycho-social familial problems. As a result, appropriate educational assessments are not conducted and little attention is given to remediating learning difficulties that may prevent successful reintegration of students into regular schools and often exacerbate family dysfunction. |
| Databáze: |
Networked Digital Library of Theses & Dissertations |
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