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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Working Class Families"”.
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Three factors that influence working class families with school-age and teenage children to work off-schedule shifts: Independence, power, and prestige
… work relationships in off-schedule shift work families with school-age and teenage children living at home. This research was conducted for the purpose of answering three questions: (a) What factors influence parents to choose to work off-schedule shifts and to relate to the family in the ways …
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Pedagogic evaluation, computational performance and orientations to mathematics: a study of the constitution of Grade 10 mathematics in two secondary schools
… to the academic success of learners from working-class families and low economic status communities. The research problem stems from a hypothesis, derived from the literature, that social class differences in learner performances in school mathematics suggest differences in the functioning …
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The Discursive Production of Subjectivity in Television News: Reflecting the Other on the Obese Child's Body
… family structure and/or nonwhite and working class families -- families saturated with the excessive, out-of-control subjectivity of the Other-- are visible on the excessive, out-ofcontrol body of the obese child. I will argue that the discourse surrounding childhood obesity is …
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The Labour of Home
… to accessing affordable housing for poor and working-class families. This work explores the emergence of occupation as a working-class housing and survival strategy that innovatively addresses these barriers to accommodation. Through intimate one on one conversations and shared experiences, …
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A contrastive ethnographic case study of homes in Cape Town
… divergent settings, namely, in one working class family, where neither of the parents were formally employed in wage labour, and one middle class family, where the parents were both employed professionals. While the two families shared a common relation to South Sotho/Setswana as …
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Advantages and opportunities of developing and investing in micro-units
… small apartments were mainly built to house working class families. People did not have many options and had to take whatever housing the state assigned to them. Most of those families remained in these assigned small units for the rest of their lives, many of which were growing families of 4 …
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Classwork: Examining the Practices, Socialization, and Identities of Elementary School Teachers With Working Class Origins Through Their Oral Histories
This qualitative study examines how working class elementary school teachers experience identity, socialization, and practice. Oral history interviews were collected from six elementary school teachers, five female and one male with working class origins. Five were white and one was …
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Grief, Mourning and Motherhood: Cultural experiences of child and infant deaths across different social classes in the Victorian period
… of life in Victorian England, across all social classes, particularly the deaths of infants and children. 1 in 4 children died before the age of 5 consistently throughout the Victorian period. The Victorian fascination with death has been explored extensively by historians, especially the …
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Work–Family Conflict in Low-Income Households
… to the work policies in place. As a result, poor families face challenges that make it more difficult to meet the demands of work and family life. Research on how to address policy change to account for every worker in the United States needs to be conducted so that low income communities can have …
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South African Indians in Natal: The question of belonging, lived histories, and portraits
… of materially deprived South African Indian families, and forms of reciprocity and mutuality they lived by in the age of apartheid. Apartheid, for many South African Indian working-class families brought deep deprivation but also petty benefits, and relatively greater opportunities to access …
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FAMILY SYSTEMS THROUGH FAMILY PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS
… family's conceptualization of gender. How social class, family structure and lifecycle stage affect the process of reality construction is also explored. Data collection from twenty families residing in New England form the basis for this analysis.</p><p>The findings indicate that social class has …
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The Mentor's Role: Exploring mentorship in a working-class neighbourhood's after-school program
… deal with the needs of children and youth from working-class families, especially those who do not have available caretakers to guide them through the educational system or resources that help them master literacy and numeracy skills they may need in academic settings or in the workforce. …
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‘Joining late': exploring the impact of the Late Joiner Penalty (LJP) imposed by South African medical aid schemes
… of joining a medical aid scheme for poorer working-class families are problematic and consistent with current hegemonic practices that reward citizens for fitting into the ideal mould. These findings were then discussed within the theoretical framework of citizenship using Barchiesi's (2007) …
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Gender Segregation In Educational Choice - Contributory Factors and Subsequent Implications for Women
… shortcomings of my study is the 'omission' of class, which is another significant concept in the analysis of gender segregation in educational choice. I was of the opinion that this area could quite easily constitute a study in itself. Gender and class are two significant variables with regard …
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Experiments in Decentralization: Suburban Spaces in the Writings of Early Twentieth-Century British Female Novelists
… of patriarchal gender norms. As lower-middle and working-class families relocated to suburbia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, they colonized a way of life that was specific to the affluent bourgeoisie. That such shifts in urban geography and demographics threatened the …
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An ethnographic study examining food and drink practices in four early childhood settings
… as well as 'in danger'. Moreover, some working class families' food practices are similarly constructed. I contend that an over-concern with risk avoidance may be antithetical to other long-held ideas about early childhood practice, notably the importance of playfulness and spontaneity. …
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“We about to be real”… “Literacy is everywhere”… “Ya somos expertos”: Documenting and learning from families’ language and literacy practices
… and explored the ways in which marginalized families participating in a Two-Way-Immersion (TWI) program enacted their language and literacy practices in home and community contexts. In this study I problematize how schooling, even via “additive” programs such as TWI, are no exception to the …
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An investigation into the constitution of absolute value inequalities by Grade 12 students in a selection of Western Cape State schools as displayed in students' solutions to a baseline test problem
… in seven schools populated by students from working-class families in the Western Cape of South Africa. This study is located within the general problematic of the constitution of school Mathematics in pedagogic settings and the methodology draws from a study by Davis (2013a) who examined …
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Intergenerational family dynamics and leisure among second-generation Mexican-American youth
… were conducted with four Mexican-American families (mother, father, and child) and two single-mother families (mother and child) in California. The findings revealed that the most important factors that influenced children’s leisure participation in their communities were safety and space …