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Book Review of: Schecter, I.J. (2019). Do You Ever Cry, Dad? A Father\u27s Guide to Surviving Family Breakup
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Designed to Fail: Media Representations of Racialized Classrooms and Schools
No full textEducational institutions are assumed to be racially neutral. However, media represents the achievement and ability of individual students and schools disparately and gives these attributes racial meaning. The scenes and sets in movies in the background seldom enter our consciousness and are assumed natural and normal in the context of movies and the stories they communicate. However, audiences, media institutions and set designers draw on shared cultural understandings to communicate and interpret the racial implications behind objects, placement of bodies, and scenery (Entman, 1993, pp. 52-53). Negative media portrayals of Black students and their school environments suggest that there is a problem with urban education. These representations and images suggest that the setting and the objects within it have purpose and meaning that is important in relaying the intended message. This study examines physical elements represented in classroom and school spaces in four movies: Akeelah and the Bee (2006), Finding Forrester (2000), Coach Carter (2005), High School Musical (2006). Utilizing a visual analysis of scenes depicting classrooms and school exteriors in these films, this study sought to examine how these representations of schools are presented as racialized spaces. Based on the data collected, the study concluded school spaces are represented disparately if they are assumed to contain Black racialized bodies than they are if they are assumed to be white spaces. Representations of urban schools with Black student populations contain multiple elements of surveillance, control and categorization
Book Review of: Knuttila, M. (2016). Paying for Masculinity: Boys, Men and the Patriarchal Dividend. Halifax, NS: Fernwood Publishing.
No full textBook Review of Moniz, Tomas (ed.) (2016). Rad Families: A Celebration. Halifax, N.S.: Fernwood Publishing
No full textBook Review of: Kaler, Amy. (2017). Baby Trouble in the Last Best West: Making New People in Alberta, 1905-1939. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
No full textBook Review of: Zafar, Samra (with Meg Masters) (2019). A Good Wife: Escaping the Life I Never Chose
No full textBook Review of Calvert, K. (2015). June Mickle: One Woman\u27s Life in the Foothills and Mountains of Western Canada.
No full textPsychosocial Needs of Bereaved Spouses in Nigeria: Implications for Grief Counselling Intervention
No full textSpousal death is a traumatic life event which engenders different reactions. It becomes more challenging when psychosocial needs are inadequate. This study examined the psychosocial needs of bereaved spouses in Nigeria. The research method adopted for this study was descriptive survey. The population of the study consisted of 1,924,301 bereaved spouses in Nigeria. Purposive and proportional sampling techniques were adopted in selecting a total sample of 1,594 bereaved spouses across the six geo-political zones in Nigeria. The Psychosocial Needs of Bereaved Spouses Scale was used for data collection. Means, percentages, rank order, t-test, and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) statistical measures were used to analyze the data collected for the study. The findings of the study revealed that respondents needed to acquire a job to sustain the family, raise finances for family upkeep, pay house bills and deal with widowhood isolation, among others. Also, age at bereavement, length of years of loss and nature of death had significant influences on respondents’ psychosocial needs, while gender and religious affiliations had no significant influence on the psychosocial needs of the respondents. The study concluded that respondents’ psychosocial needs were high. The implication is that bereaved spouses need better psychosocial supports to facilitate better adjustments. Based on the findings of the study, it was recommended, among others, that counsellors should provide relevant community-based intervention programs and support services to assist bereaved spouses of different age groups, length of years of loss and nature of death, religion, and gender to meet their varying needs
