Mark Smith

Boys' Stories of Their Time in a Residential School (eBook, ePUB)

'The Best Years of Our Lives'

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides rich insights into the pre and post care experiences of boys who were pupils in a residential school where the author worked over the course of the 1980s.

It describes the boys' trajectories through life, as well as detailing the rhythms, rituals, routines, and relationships that existed in the school. While the focus is on the (former) boys' experiences, these are augmented by interview material from staff members, including religious Brothers, who worked in the school.

Together, these different perspectives provide unique insights into an area of social work history that is ill-served by existing accounts, making the book required reading for all scholars and students of social work; social and oral history; narrative sociology; criminology and desistance and social policy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429942143
• Artikelnr.: 64309599

Autorenporträt

Mark Smith is Professor of Social Work at the University of Dundee, Scotland. Prior to that he worked at the University of Strathclyde, where he set up the first Master's programme in Residential Child Care in the UK, and at the University of Edinburgh, where, latterly, he served as Head of Social Work. Before entering academia, he worked in and managed residential care establishments for almost 20 years. He has published widely on residential child care and on social work more generally. He and his family maintain direct involvement in child care through fostering.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The List D Schools and St Roch's
3. The role of the De La Salle Brothers in the approved and List D Schools
4. Positioning myself in St Roch's
5. The backgrounds of the St Roch's boys
6. Education in its widest sense
7. A sense of care
8. Discipline and abuse
9. Moving on and looking back
10. The age of mistrust: Changing patterns of care and upbringing in neoliberalism
11. Making sense of the narrative gap
12. Epilogue: Looking back with sadness and not a little anger