Hair and Care: Black Children and Young People's Experiences of Belonging and Exclusion in Social Care and Education in England

头发与护理：英国黑人儿童和青少年在社会护理和教育中的归属感和排斥经历

• 批准号: MR/W01405X/1
• 负责人: Sweta Rajan-Rankin
• 金额: $ 157.52万
• 依托单位: University of Kent
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR%2FW01405X%2F1
• 关键词: Hair; Care; Black; Children; Young

"What does hair have to do with inequalities in social care and education?". This project aims to answer this question through an innovative qualitative study exploring how 'hair' and 'social care' intersect in the specific contexts of transracial adoption, mixed-race families and black pupils school exclusion in English secondary schools. Hair studies is a relatively under researched area, focussing mainly on hair as coded beauty practice in terms of gender, age, social class and racial identity. Yet there remains limited research on how hair care is more than beauty practice and can serve as a powerful way of understanding racial inequalities in social care and education. While there have been discrete studies exploring hair and care, there is yet to be coherent body of work bringing hair and care together in children and families' social work. This far reaching and ambitious set of work packages allow us to examine how hair care is conceptualised, practiced and produces structural inequalities through an examination of children and young people's experiences.Aims and Objectives1. To explore how hair care shapes experiences of black identity and belonging through a comparative study of children and families' perspectives' in the context of transracial adoption and mixed- race families in Kent and London.2. To investigate school-based exclusions of black pupils in English secondary schools based on racialized presentation and black hair practice in Kent and Manchester.The social problems the project addresses are of critical importance. In 2020, there were 80,080 looked after children, even as rates of adoption have fallen steeply since 2015 (DfE, 2020). Studies indicate that while Black and Asian care experienced children are a small percentage of all looked after children, they are much less likely to find a "forever family". Recent media accounts have also reported that English secondary schools are excluding Black children with natural hairstyles and subject them to disproportionate levels of discipline and control. In order to address the objectives outlined in the project, two distinct work packages have been designed using a range of qualitative methods. Work package 1 explores the role of hair in understanding children and families' experiences of black identity and belonging by drawing on 30 interviews with black adoptees, parents, siblings and post-adoption social workers with up to 30 transracial adoption (TRA) and mixed-race family settings. Using a holistic approach all family members will be captured through interviews with the adoptees, siblings and individual interviews with parents. Comparing TRA and mixed-race families will help to highlight commonalities and differences in young people's experiences in biologically constituted and socially reconstituted families. Participatory methods will be used which will be accessible to children including interviews and asking them to take photographs of their everyday lives. Work package 2 seeks to understand black pupils' experience of exclusion and belonging in secondary schools in Kent and Manchester, through interviews and focus groups with young people, school teachers and social work trainees in school settings. Six schools in Medway and Manchester will be sampled based on the racial and ethnic diversity of the schools. We will approach Head teachers, teachers unions and recruit pupils directly through social media. A total of 60 interviews (30 in Manchester and 30 in Medway) will be conducted with black pupils and teachers along with 15 focus group discussions to understand young people's peer group experiences. Young people will also be given cameras to record video diaries of their experiences of belonging in school settings.This research project is significant in exploring racial inequalities in social care and education.

"头发与社会关怀和教育的不平等有什么关系？".该项目旨在通过一项创新的定性研究来回答这个问题，探讨“头发”和“社会关怀”如何在跨种族收养，混合种族家庭和黑人学生学校排斥的特定背景下交叉在英语中学。头发研究是一个相对较低的研究领域，主要集中在头发作为编码美容实践方面的性别，年龄，社会阶层和种族认同。然而，关于头发护理如何不仅仅是美容实践，并且可以作为理解社会护理和教育中种族不平等的有力方式的研究仍然有限。虽然已经有独立的研究探索头发和护理，但还没有连贯的工作机构将头发和护理结合在儿童和家庭的社会工作中。这套意义深远、雄心勃勃的工作包使我们能够通过对儿童和青少年的经历进行研究，来审视护发是如何被概念化、实践的，以及如何产生结构性不平等。通过对肯特和伦敦跨种族收养和混血家庭中儿童和家庭观点的比较研究，探讨头发护理如何塑造黑人身份和归属感的体验。以种族化的呈现方式和肯特和曼彻斯特的黑发做法为基础，调查英国中学对黑人学生的学校排斥。2020年，有80，080名儿童得到照顾，尽管自2015年以来收养率急剧下降（DfE，2020）。研究表明，虽然黑人和亚裔有照料经验的儿童在所有被照料的儿童中所占比例很小，但他们找到"永久家庭"的可能性要小得多。最近的媒体报道还报道说，英国中学将拥有自然发型的黑人儿童排除在外，并使他们受到不成比例的纪律和控制。为了实现项目中概述的目标，采用一系列定性方法设计了两个不同的工作包。工作包1探讨了头发在理解儿童和家庭的黑人身份和归属感的经验的作用，通过对30名黑人被收养者，父母，兄弟姐妹和收养后的社会工作者进行采访，其中包括多达30个跨种族收养（TRA）和混合种族家庭环境。采用全面的方法，通过与被收养人、兄弟姐妹的面谈和与父母的个别面谈，收集所有家庭成员的情况。比较TRA和混合种族家庭将有助于突出的共同点和差异，年轻人的经验，在生物组成和社会重组的家庭。将使用儿童可以使用的宣传方法，包括采访和请他们拍摄日常生活的照片。第二套工作方案力求通过与学校环境中的青年、学校教师和社会工作受训人员进行访谈和重点小组讨论，了解肯特和曼彻斯特中学黑人学生遭受排斥和归属感的经历。将根据学校的种族和民族多样性对梅德韦和曼彻斯特的六所学校进行抽样。我们将通过社交媒体直接接触校长，教师工会并招募学生。将对黑人学生和教师进行总共60次采访（30次在曼彻斯特，30次在梅德威），沿着15次焦点小组讨论，以了解年轻人的同龄人群体经历。这项研究计划对探讨社会关怀和教育方面的种族不平等问题有重要意义。