The 2017 general comment (GC21) to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) on children in street situations, provides a framework of legal guidance for governments developing policies aimed at protecting street-connected children and sets up the rationale for more awareness raising and public education to counter negative…

The words "behaviour" and "resistance" often conjure up fear-invoking images that prevent us from reflecting on what it is that we, as educators, understand behaviour to mean. In this article, we use resistance theory to rethink behaviour as communication by counter-storying one observation of resistance involving children and…

Street children are defined as, "those for whom the street more than their real family has become their real home, a situation in which there is no protection, supervision or direction from responsible adults" (Ennew, 1994, p. 15). The purpose of the present study is to evaluate the perception of self-competence and social acceptance of…

The focus of the present study is to demonstrate traces of Homi k. Bhabha's notion of identity in V. S. Naipaul's "A House for Mr. Biswas" (1961). As a prominent postcolonial figure, Bhabha has contemplated over the formation of identity in the colonizing circumstances. He discusses on what happens to the colonizer and the colonized…