This chapter discusses a study in Lombardy, Northern Italy, involving care leavers, i.e. young people who came of age while living in fosterage (children’s homes and/or foster families), and had experienced professional intervention in their lives (social workers, in-home assistants, special educators, psychotherapists, etc.). The research is based on the use of multiple methods (critical quantitative research, auto/biographical methods and cooperative inquiry) to explore the transition to adulthood in distressed lives and to interrogate the learning processes occurring amidst the foster care system.
Galimberti, A., Formenti, L., Ferrari, M. (2020). Transition to adulthood. Learning from young adults through the exploratory use of multiple methods. In B. Grummel, F. Finnegan (a cura di), Doing Critical and Creative Research in Adult Education. Case Studies in Methodology and Theory (pp. 37-47). Leiden : Brill/Sense [10.1163/9789004420755_004].
Transition to adulthood. Learning from young adults through the exploratory use of multiple methods
Galimberti, APrimo
;Formenti, LSecondo
;Ferrari, MUltimo
2020
Abstract
This chapter discusses a study in Lombardy, Northern Italy, involving care leavers, i.e. young people who came of age while living in fosterage (children’s homes and/or foster families), and had experienced professional intervention in their lives (social workers, in-home assistants, special educators, psychotherapists, etc.). The research is based on the use of multiple methods (critical quantitative research, auto/biographical methods and cooperative inquiry) to explore the transition to adulthood in distressed lives and to interrogate the learning processes occurring amidst the foster care system.
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