Journal of Education and Research

Educational Resilience of Urban Squatter Children in Kathmandu
Indra Mani Rai 1 * , Bal Chandra Luitel 1, Suresh Gautam 1, Binod Prasad Pant 1, Santosh Gautam 1
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1 School of Education, Kathmandu University, Nepal* Corresponding Author
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Journal of Education and Research, Volume 5, Issue 2, 2015, 49-68, https://doi.org/10.3126/jer.v5i0.15730

Publication date: Mar 10, 2016

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Reference: Rai, I. M., Luitel, B. C., Gautam, S., Pant, B. P., & Gautam, S. (2015). Educational Resilience of Urban Squatter Children in Kathmandu. Journal of Education and Research, 5(2), 49-68. https://doi.org/10.3126/jer.v5i0.15730
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Reference: Rai, Indra Mani, Bal Chandra Luitel, Suresh Gautam, Binod Prasad Pant, and Santosh Gautam. "Educational Resilience of Urban Squatter Children in Kathmandu". Journal of Education and Research 2015 5 no. 2 (2015): 49-68. https://doi.org/10.3126/jer.v5i0.15730
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ABSTRACT
Squatters are the illegal tenants residing in public lands as immigrants due to livelihood collapse in their origins. They have been denied of public resources and urban facilities because of their identity crisis leading to a vicious circle of poverty with impoverished livelihood creating multifaceted adversities of learning for their children. In this context, this paper, based on a cyclical mixed method research design under transformative research approach, has explored the learning adversities faced by the squatter children of Kathmandu Metropolitan city, their protective and promotive strategies to cope with adversities and life-skills as learning outcomes. Squatter children are struggling against the backdrop of exposure to unhygienic settlements with low health conditions, poverty with impoverished livelihood, and illiteracy of parents, poor homely environment, and dysfunctional families. Despite such adversities, they were able to continue school education with the support of their teachers, peers, parents and families. The research study finds stronger family and community assets of the students. These assets are helpful for building educational resilience of the squatter children.
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