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Emmy Weatherill; Su Lyn Corcoran; Shuang Yin Cheryl Ng – Global Studies of Childhood, 2024
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…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Children, Mass Media Effects, Mass Media Role
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Corcoran, Su Lyn; Awimbo, Lillian Aoko; Mugwanga, Kelvin; Aluoch, Irene Atieno – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2020
This article contributes to the literature on street-connectedness and inclusive education, presenting original research findings from two Kenyan studies. Both studies aim to understand street-connected young people's experiences of education. The first focused on transitioning from the street into education or training, to explore the challenges…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Student Adjustment, Homeless People
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DeBoer, Jennifer; Radhakrishnan, Dhinesh; Freitas, Claudio – Advances in Engineering Education, 2022
Displaced learners, uprooted because of conflict, poverty, or other major traumas, are often shut out of opportunities to learn engineering. At the same time, fragile contexts demand engineers' expertise, but experts and their engineered solutions are often called in from outside the community. In this article, we examine engineering learning as a…
Descriptors: Refugees, Homeless People, Authentic Learning, Engineering Education