Adoption Matters - Teacher Educators Share Their Stories and Strategies for Adoption-Inclusive Curriculum and Pedagogy (Hardcover, New edition)

Adoption Matters: Teacher Educators Share Their Stories and Strategies for Adoption-Inclusive Curriculum and Pedagogy explores the experiences of educators inside and outside of the classroom with students who are adopted. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there are approximately 1.5 million children in the United States who have been adopted. Adoption is not a new way to form a family, but there have been shifts in adoption practices. Two of those shifts have been the increase in open adoptions and an increased understanding of how international adoption can influence children. Since the 1970s, the work of the Adoptees' Liberty Movement Association and other organizations working on behalf of adoptees has raised public awareness about adoption and spread adoption stories. In the United States, adoption is rarely a secret any more, and many children who are adopted are aware of it. This means that professionals working with children who were adopted need to be prepared to understand the lived experiences of these children and their families. The stories in Adoption Matters describe the experiences of teacher educators and illuminate how adoption continues to shape their professional practice. Educators' narratives reveal the intricate processes they have encountered in building their own families through adoption, as well as their struggles and triumphs with individual schools and school systems. Adoption Matters hopes to disrupt the notion that adoption and adoption-related issues should be secret, taboo, or dismissed.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Equity in Higher Education Theory, Policy, and Praxis, 8
Release date:	October 2018
First published:	2018
Editors:	Robin K Fox
Dimensions:	225 x 150mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	218
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4331-5887-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Educational psychology Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Family & relationships > Adoption & fostering
LSN:	1-4331-5887-6
Barcode:	9781433158872

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