There’s No Place Like Home: Post-Secondary Student Stories of Disaster-Induced Home Loss

David, Alisha

There’s No Place Like Home: Post-Secondary Student Stories of Disaster-Induced Home Loss

dc.contributor.advisor	Groen, Janet Elizabeth
dc.contributor.author	David, Alisha
dc.contributor.committeemember	Burwell, Catherine
dc.contributor.committeemember	Potvin, Bernard Lawrence
dc.contributor.committeemember	Clover, Darlene
dc.contributor.committeemember	Danyluk, Patricia Jill
dc.date	2023-11
dc.date.accessioned	2023-06-22T15:50:41Z
dc.date.available	2023-06-22T15:50:41Z
dc.date.issued	2023-06
dc.description.abstract	In the iconic 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, Judy Garland's character Dorothy exclaimed, "there's no place like home" (Fleming, 1939, 1:38:55). With the click of her heels, she awakes in her bed. Her wish to return to her most beloved place granted after a tornado turned her world upside down. Unfortunately, real life is often nothing like the films we view at leisure, and for many of us who have lost our homes due to a disaster event, our journey to find home again presents far more challenge and change than is depicted on the big screen. This difficulty is further compounded by concurring life factors, such as being a student. This research explores the transitional experiences of adult learners that navigated disaster-induced home loss in Alberta while enrolled in a full-time post-secondary program. Using a narrative methodological approach (Connelly & Clandinin, 2006) and guided by Schlossberg's Transition Theory (Schlossberg, 1981), the experiences of seven participants were storied from interviews and analyzed collaboratively. The findings of this endeavour suggest that the adult learners experienced a high degree of simultaneous transitions because of their disaster-induced home losses but noted that these transitions were often not recognized while they were occurring. When considered alongside their full-time post-secondary programming obligations, the participants noted that their educational experience had both a protective and inhibiting influence on their ability to manage the resultant change. This research has implications for policymakers and educators as they work to better support and understand adult learners in similar contexts, as well as implications for the adult learners themselves.
dc.identifier.citation	David, A. (2023). There’s no place like home: post-secondary student stories of disaster-induced home loss (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1880/116638
dc.identifier.uri	https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/41481
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher.faculty	Graduate Studies
dc.publisher.institution	University of Calgary
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dc.subject	disaster
dc.subject	socio-natural disaster
dc.subject	home
dc.subject	loss
dc.subject	navigate
dc.subject	transition
dc.subject	change
dc.subject	post-secondary
dc.subject	student
dc.subject	narrative
dc.subject	grief
dc.subject.classification	Education--Adult and Continuing
dc.subject.classification	Education--Higher
dc.title	There’s No Place Like Home: Post-Secondary Student Stories of Disaster-Induced Home Loss
dc.type	doctoral thesis
thesis.degree.discipline	Education Graduate Program – Educational Research
thesis.degree.grantor	University of Calgary
thesis.degree.name	Doctor of Education (EdD)
ucalgary.thesis.accesssetbystudent	I do not require a thesis withhold – my thesis will have open access and can be viewed and downloaded publicly as soon as possible.