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Author : Lindsay Kerr
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 36,55 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0802091237

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One of the key planks of conservative Ontario premier Mike Harris's 1990s platform was education reform. Amid a sea of official reports, policy documents and 'expert' opinions on education, however, the voices of actual classroom teachers were difficult to find. This omission is redressed in Lindsay Kerr'sBetween Caring & Counting. Through a focus group of present-day secondary school teachers in Toronto, Kerr delivers a passionate account of the unassailably negative changes affecting secondary education and teachers' work. From a critical feminist perspective and using institutional ethnography, Kerr situates the problem in education squarely as a conflict between an 'accounting logic' and 'an ethic of care at the centre of education practice.' She exposes paradoxes inherent in education reform such as the increase of government control at the same time that government funding for education decreases. She also connects educational restructuring to changes in the power relations of gender, class and race across the public education system. These local changes, she finds, do not reflect sound pedagogy but the imperatives of neoliberal globalization. Counteracting despair with hope, Kerr explores self-reflexive suggestions for teacher-educators to exercise agency in their lives and to continue to work toward a just and equitable public education system.

Author : Mignon Duffy
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 36,12 MB
Release : 2011-02-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0813550777

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There are fundamental tasks common to every society: children have to be raised, homes need to be cleaned, meals need to be prepared, and people who are elderly, ill, or disabled need care. Day in, day out, these responsibilities can involve both monotonous drudgery and untold rewards for those performing them, whether they are family members, friends, or paid workers. These are jobs that cannot be outsourced, because they involve the most intimate spaces of our everyday lives--our homes, our bodies, and our families. Mignon Duffy uses a historical and comparative approach to examine and critique the entire twentieth-century history of paid care work--including health care, education and child care, and social services--drawing on an in-depth analysis of U.S. Census data as well as a range of occupational histories. Making Care Count focuses on change and continuity in the social organization along with cultural construction of the labor of care and its relationship to gender, racial-ethnic, and class inequalities. Debunking popular understandings of how we came to be in a "care crisis," this book stands apart as an historical quantitative study in a literature crowded with contemporary, qualitative studies, proposing well-developed policy approaches that grow out of the theoretical and empirical arguments.

Author : Tony Ward
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 37,50 MB
Release : 2012-03-19
Category :
ISBN : 1425122647

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Author : Sunflower J
Publisher :
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 43,15 MB
Release : 2015-03-06
Category :
ISBN : 9781522779827

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Today is Tina's birthday. She has ten cookies and would like to share them with her friends. Can you help Tina share her birthday cookies with her friends?

Author : LaShondra Harris
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 26,73 MB
Release : 2015-03-07
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ISBN : 9781508779858

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Can you help Tina count to ten?

Author : Margo J. Hittleman
Publisher :
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 28,35 MB
Release : 2007
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This dissertation--incorporating action research, global ethnography, narrative inquiry, and critical race perspectives--examines an agency-wide staff and organizational development process at the Greater Ithaca Activities Center (GIAC), an African-American-led, multicultural community center in Ithaca, New York, while contextualizing this local work within an examination of global structural forces shaping the work of the community-service sector as a whole in the United States.

Author : Siri Suh
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 34,76 MB
Release : 2021-06-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1978804547

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Dying to Count explores how national and global population politics collide in Senegalese hospitals as health workers treat and document women who present with complications of abortion. Siri Suh's ethnography illustrates political, economic, professional, and technological factors that jeopardize quality of and access to obstetric care in public hospitals despite national and global commitments to reproductive health.

Author : Mignon Duffy
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 33,37 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0813549604

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Use of historical and comparative approach to examine and critique the development of paid care work in the twentieth-century including health care, education and child care, and social services.

Author : Reynolds, Tracey
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 28,33 MB
Release : 2003-07-25
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1861345348

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The main work-life balance policies promoted by government focus on the amount of time mothers spend at work. This report challenges this approach. It suggests that what happens inside the workplace and how this interacts with family life is just as important.