K. School

The research is a very interesting and rich §ethnography of a residential institution for §troublesome girls in Estonia in the late 1990s. §Judit Strömpl has collected her data by working as §an educator in the K. school participating its daily §activities, observing and discussing with and §interviewing staff, managers and residents of the §institution. The author ambitious aim is to bring a §new approach to the Estonian professional and §scientific discourse on troublesome children and §young people by analysing the system, its everyday §operation, ideology, and rhetoric and not the §individualised reasons for the problems of young §people. This institutional ethnography is also used §as a case to analyse Estonian transition-time §society. Especially for a foreign reader this makes §the book even more interesting and shows the §author s cultural sensitivity. Professor Marjo §Kuronen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland The descriptions and findings will be of §substantial interest to a wide audience. The thesis §will make a considerable contribution to the §academic literature. Professor Amanda Coffey, §Cardiff University, UK.