Third Culture Kids
Author: David C. Pollock, Ruth E. Van Reken
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ISBN: 1857882954
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Intercultural (01 May, 2001)
Sales Rank: 6,187
Average Customer Rating: 5 out of 5
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Rating: 5 out of 5
a MUST HAVE BOOK FOR FAMILIES OVERSEAS
David Pollock and Ruth Van Reken have written a book that is invaluable to families who live overseas. Their understanding of the unique interpersonal and intrapersonal needs of persons in transition, coming and going from culture to culture, is first-hand as well as being well researched. It has been an essential tool for me as I work with students and families in the international/expatriate community. I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Could help others too
I was a Third Culture Kid and I found this book helpfull in understanding who I am 40 years later. (I found the TCK phrase awkward but could think of none better.)I also think this would be of use to people whose childhood was similar to the TCK's. Especially children who had little stability while growing up. Divorce, parential deaths, and especially children shunted off to boarding schools.
Many boarding schools provide a fairly good life and a substitute family, but when it's over, it's over. and then who am I?
Rating: 5 out of 5
This is me!
Really loved that book, the first time I felt understood in a very long time. I grew up in Peru and Spain, studied in the USA then moved to my "home country" Germany-(now I live in San Diego!). You really grasp every single feeling one experiences and the examples mentioned in the book could very well be me! .................... Saludos H. Similar Products
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