The Value of Multi-sited Ethnography for Researching and Informing Effective Adoption Education in the United States
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St George's Building - Room SG 0.20
141 High Street Portsmouth PO1 2HY United KingdomDescription
This is part of the School of Education and Childhood Studies Research Seminar series for the Academic Year 2017-2018
This seminar is specifically linked to The Mice Hub (Mental Health in Childhood and Education); please click on the following link for further details: http://www.port.ac.uk/school-of-education-and-childhood-studies/research/mental-health-in-childhood-and-education-hub/
Dr Rachael Stryker, Associate Professor, Dept of Human Development & Women's Studies, California State University, East Bay
Research Seminar: The Value of Multi-sited Ethnography for Researching and Informing Effective Adoption Education in the United States
Abstract: This talk summarizes the results of a ten-year, multi-sited ethnographic project that used qualitative research along Russian-U.S. adoption pipelines to effectively inform adoption education programs for parents in California. Topics discussed include the importance of translating the geopolitics of adoption regions to prospective adoptive parents; centering a cross-cultural understanding of attachment socialization and expression within the adoption process; and focusing on how individual and holistic well-being of post-adoptive family members can be achieved.
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Current research projects include collaborative work with local charities and councils on projects to do with young careleavers, cyberbullying, social and emotional aspects in relation to learning in schools and early years settings.
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