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Hammond, S. P. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0473-3610, Cooper, Neil and Jordan, Peter
(2021)
Mental health, identity and informal education opportunities for adolescents with experience of living in state care: a role for digital storytelling.
Cambridge Journal of Education, 51 (6).
pp. 713-732.
ISSN 0305-764X
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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.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | education,adolescents,digital storytelling,focused ethnography,state care,thematic analysis,education,sdg 3 - good health and well-being ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3304 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Education and Lifelong Learning Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Social Work |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Research on Children and Families Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Social Cognition Research Group |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Apr 2021 23:50 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Dec 2024 01:47 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/79822 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/0305764X.2021.1919057 |
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