Exploring Boarding School Challenges for Women and Third Culture Kids - Worlds Away From Home

Through personal testimonies, this book offers insights into the boarding school experiences of women and Third Culture Kids (TCK), examining the particular challenges for those who are sent away from their families and all that is familiar to board in a country that feels worlds away from home.

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. Stepping from denial into curiosity: Boarding school through an attachment-trauma lens 3. Transcultural Childhoods, Third Culture Kids and Boarding School 4. Personal Stories 5. Insights from the personal testimonies - Gendered experiences of childhood boarding 6. Insights from personal testimonies: Third Culture Kids and boarding school 7. Coming Home (a therapist's view) 8. A safe haven

About the author

Nicky Moxey, an ex-boarder, originally spent 33 years as a project manager and Agile coach. She is retraining as an integrative counsellor and intends to work with boarding school survivors after she qualifies.
Linda Devereux is a third culture kid with more than 40 years of teaching experience in schools and universities. Linda is an Adjunct Research Fellow at Charles Sturt University, Australia, where she researches and publishes in the fields of transcultural childhoods, life narrative, boarding school, and the transition to university.

Summary

Through personal testimonies, this book offers insights into the boarding school experiences of women and Third Culture Kids (TCK), examining the particular challenges for those who are sent away from their families and all that is familiar to board in a country that feels worlds away from home.

Product details

• Authors: Nicky Devereux Moxey
• Assisted by: Linda Devereux (Editor), Nicky Moxey (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.03.2025
• EAN: 9781032876313
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3287631-3
• No. of pages: 168
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Counseling, Psychotherapy, Educational psychology, Pre-school & kindergarten, Pre-school and kindergarten, Education: care & counselling of students, Counselling and care of students, Social counselling and advice services, Counselling & Advice Services