Despite ongoing debates, funding and pedagogical initiatives, why do many children and adults continue to miss out on learning literacy? Might it be that we have given too little attention to a vital determinant in the learning process? This book introduces the concept of learning care - the emotional and affective attitudes and actions at home, school and in wider society, that support and encourage learning. An ethnographic exploration of learning care carried out with adult survivors of institutional abuses in the now notorious Irish industrial schools highlights the pivotal importance of care through their retelling of care-less childhood memories. The book argues for the notion of learning care to be given serious consideration and for the state to fulfill its learning care duty to equally resource families, schools and communities to do this pivotal work. Learning care abuses are not confined to Ireland or indeed to the past. Across continents, similar cases of...

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