Surviving Domestic Abuse Empowerment through Education (Paperback)

This research monograph relates the findings of a study into the ways that survivors of domestic abuse can move on with their lives and take action to prevent their re-victimisation by returning to education. The research aim was to explore education as a means through which domestic abuse survivors may effect positive and empowering changes to their (and their children's) lives, thereby enhancing their life chances and preventing future re-victimisation. The findings show the point in their moving on process in which domestic abuse survivors decide to (re) enter education; the personal and social factors that enable them to become empowered by seeking to further their educational prospects; why and how some domestic abuse survivors seek to, and are able to, return to education; the consequences (personal, economic and social) of education for survivors; and recommendations for policy and practice in terms of strategies for information, advice and support to facilitate survivors' moving on process. The book will appeal to anyone working in the field of domestic abuse, as well as those who are or have been the target of domestic abuse.