This comparative case study’s purpose is to explore how multi-age learn- ers, both adults and children, from immigrant backgrounds experienced care in two educational settings in the United States and Ireland. Using data from two separate qualitative studies, this paper draws on the authors’ conceptualization of interdependent empowered care (IEC) to argue that the settings exemplified three separate, but interrelated, care elements: 1) identity-affirming counterspaces; 2) interdependency...
