A suddenly desirable demographic?: care leavers in higher education

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dc.contributor.authorMichell, D.
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractGraduation ceremony and celebration in December 2008, I decided to spend the evening viewing the 1985 television adaptation of Lucy Maud Montgomery's 1908 book, 'Anne of Green Gables'. Still clad in my mortar board, gown and stole, and clutching my graduation teddy bear, I watched as the delightfully energetic, imaginative and enthusiastic young Anne arrives at the train station in Avonlea, desperately anxious to stay with her prospective new foster parents. "Who wouldn't want to live there with all those green hills, the blossoming apple trees, and quaint weatherboard farmhouse," I thought, knowing full well that as a foster kid I had longed for Anne's life. Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert had decided to take on an orphanage boy whose job it would be to assist the ageing Matthew on the farm. Since Anne had been mistakenly sent to the farm instead, her future hangs in the balance for a time until, appalled by stories of brutality and over work that little Anne had experienced in orphanages and foster care, Marilla finally agrees with Matthew and the pair adopt the child.
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityDee Michell
dc.description.urihttp://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=641038352400865;res=IELHEA
dc.identifier.citationDeveloping Practice, 2012; 2012(33):44-58
dc.identifier.issn1445-6818
dc.identifier.orcidMichell, D. [0000-0002-4243-4806]
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2440/74434
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherAssociation of Childrens Welfare Agencies, Inc
dc.rightsCopyright status unknown
dc.subjectYouth
dc.subjectpsychology
dc.subjectfoster children
dc.subjectdeinstitutionalization
dc.titleA suddenly desirable demographic?: care leavers in higher education
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.publication-statusPublished

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