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Introduction to the special issue: School and life experiences of highly mobile students: Phenomenology, risk, and resilience
Author(s) -
Sulkowski Michael L.,
Michael Kurt D.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
psychology in the schools
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.738
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1520-6807
pISSN - 0033-3085
DOI - 10.1002/pits.22445
Subject(s) - relocation , psychology , phenomenology (philosophy) , population , psychological resilience , developmental psychology , pedagogy , social psychology , sociology , epistemology , philosophy , demography , computer science , programming language
This article introduces a special issue on the school and life experiences of highly mobile students. In it, the phenomenology of high mobility is described as well as the current state of research on subpopulations of highly mobile students. In addition, the risk and resilience framework is invoked as a general theoretical crosscurrent that cuts across the articles included in the special issue that provide novel research on environmental instability, student homelessness, foster care experiences, relocation because of war, and trauma‐ and violence‐informed care. Lastly, areas for future research are discussed as highly mobile students remain an understudied yet important and growing population in need of empirical investigation and supportive intervention.