Author, as appears in the article.: Garcia Yeste C., Gairal Casadó R., Munté Pascual A., Plaja Viñas T.

Department: Pedagogia

URV's Author/s: García Yeste, Carme

Keywords: Out-of-home child care Emotional well-being Dialogic literary gatherings Classic literature Academic skills

Abstract: Research on out‐of‐home child care has revealed that foster care programmes focused on educational attainment and reading have the potential to improve the academic outcomes of children in care. However, no studies have examined which elements of these programmes positively benefit children's emotional well‐being. This article presents evidence of the positive effects of implementing a successful educational action, dialogic literary gatherings, in a children's residential care institution. A qualitative study using a communicative‐oriented methodology was conducted and involved five participant observations and eight daily life stories with children in out‐of‐home care in Catalonia (Spain). The children's reflections demonstrated that reading classic books, such as Dickens' Oliver Twist, deeply influenced their feelings and self‐conceptions and created new and exciting meaning in their lives.

Thematic Areas: Sociology and political science Sociology Sociologia i política Social work Psicología Interdisciplinary research in the social sciences Health (social science) Family studies Ciencias sociales

licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/

ISSN: 13567500

Author's mail: carme.garciay@urv.cat

Author identifier: 0000-0001-9717-8021

Record's date: 2023-02-26

Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion

Link to the original source: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/cfs.12384

Licence document URL: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/

Papper original source: Child & Family Social Work. 23 (1): 62-70

APA: Garcia Yeste C., Gairal Casadó R., Munté Pascual A., Plaja Viñas T. (2018). Dialogic literary gatherings and out-of-home child care: Creation of new meanings through classic literature. Child & Family Social Work, 23(1), 62-70. DOI: 10.1111/cfs.12384

Article's DOI: 10.1111/cfs.12384

Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Journal publication year: 2018

Publication Type: Journal Publications