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Fellin, Melissa – Journal of Social Science Education, 2015
Mothers are viewed as the people who are raising future citizens of Canada; therefore, their parenting practices are being targeted for intervention by civic organizations funded by the state. In this article, I argue that modernity narratives and neoliberalism approaches to mothering inform parenting education classes for Somali refugee women to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Child Rearing, Parent Education
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Loehwing, Melanie – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 2010
Popular discourse and advocacy efforts characterize homelessness as a social problem bound by the present-centered concerns of physical affliction and material deprivation. Wayne Powers's documentary film "Reversal of Fortune" exemplifies this tendency by performing a "social experiment" to investigate how giving a homeless man $100,000 would…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Poverty, Citizenship, Homeless People