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How Socioeconomic Status Influences Fathers’ Involvement with their Children and the Cycle it Produces
No full textThe intent of this paper is to examine the current evidence that fathers of lower socioeconomic status are less involved with their children in areas such as childrearing, homework help, and supporting the family emotionally and financially. Other areas covered in this paper include the possible reasons and theories as to why low socioeconomic status tends to lead to low father involvement. The effects of low father involvement on the children is also discussed, and this concept is furthered in order to explain the cycle of socioeconomic status that these effects create. Possible solutions are derived using the current theories, the intent of which are to help solve this problematic cycle. This paper also includes extensions beyond the scope of low and middle socioeconomic status fathers to include high socioeconomic status fathers
Examining the Association between Parent and Child Sport Participation in Canada: A General Social Survey Study
No full textResearch has shown a relationship between parent sport participation and child sport participation. With a sample of 1,064 respondents from the 2010 General Social Survey, this study examined how child sport participation is associated with parent sport participation, household income, parent education level, and parent sex. Results found that respondents with a child aged 5-12 who participated in sport over the past 12 months were more likely to have done so themselves too. (OR = 4.39, 95% CI = 2.44-7.89, p < 0.001). Significant differences (p < 0.001) were additionally found for the respondent’s education, age, and total household income. However, no significant differences were found for sex (p = 0.13). These results suggest that evidence-based interventions targeted at parents who do not participate in sport may increase children’s participation. Further research is encouraged to take a more holistic approach to analyzing childhood sport participation
Review of: Azoulay, D. (2011). Hearts and Minds: Canadian Romance at the Dawn of the Modern Era, 1900 - 1930. Calgary: University of Calgary Press.
No full textHarlow’s Famous Monkey Study: The Historical and Contemporary Significance of the Nature of Love
No full textIf you were to contemplate what it meant to be loved or what exactly makes you love another individual, the brunt of your conceptualization may very well stem back to Harry Harlow’s famous 1958 study, “The Nature of Love.” At a time that approached love as a child’s need to reduce primary drives via his/her mother, Harlow aimed to identify other variables that could explain the underlying affection of an infant-mother bond – such as contact comfort. To do this, Harlow conducted a series of investigations as part of a novel experimental design that used infant rhesus monkeys and a set of inanimate surrogate mothers. Not only did he propose a new social paradigm for family life, the role of mothers and fathers, and what it meant to be a loving parent in the process, Harlow distinguished himself as one of the most controversial experimental researchers in the history of psychology. The present paper explores the context of Harlow’s academic career and the zeitgeists that marked his time while also providing an in-depth analysis of his landmark 1958 study, how his work has been interpreted for over a half-century, and factors contributing to his overall legacy
Review of: Raeburn, P. (2014). Do Fathers Matter?: What Science Is Telling Us About the Parent We\u27ve Overlooked. New York: Scientific American.
No full textReview of: Kluger, J. (2011). The Sibling Effect: What the Bonds Among Brothers and Sisters Reveal About Us. New York: Riverhead Books.
No full textReview of: Kluger, J. (2011). The Sibling Effect: What the Bonds Among Brothers and Sisters Reveal About Us. New York: Riverhead Books.
No full textReview of: Harrison, D. and Albanese, P. (2016). Growing Up in Armyville: Canada’s Military Families during the Afghanistan Mission. Wilfred Laurier University Press.
No full textDoes Pocahontas Count? Sites of Engaged Process for Critical Literacy
No full textThis paper details my involvement as director of a media literacy program that brought together American And Nicaraguan youth to produce media about social issues. Grounded in civic engagement, youth leadership and media literacy, the program provided youth with media equipment and a series of workshops on digital literacy. Youth decided for their final project to re-create the colonial narrative Pocahontas. To me, this signaled a failure of critical media literacy programming to guide young people to tell critical stories. On further examination, I came to relate to this occurrence in a deeper way, wondering how they came to tell this story and discovering something rich and creative underneath the final product. In this paper, I explore the production process for this video, pushing at the boundaries of what constitutes both media literacy and civic engagement, and asking questions about how we understand what constitutes critical media literacy. Instead, I propose that when we focus on the product as what evidences critical literacy or civic engagement, we lose sight of the method. In this case, method was the home of powerful processes of literacy engagement around issues of class and race that were obscured by the use of the colonial narrative. This paper explores this tension, in order to both examine the challenges around producing a final product inextricably tied to colonial patterns of gender inequality and to give voice to the rich practices of critical literacy that the production process initiated
Epilogue
No full textBy its very nature, child and youth studies is transdisciplinary. Yet, conversations that truly cross epistemological and ontological categories remain difficult. The first-ever Intersections of Childhood symposium illustrated how risky and rewarding is the talk that enters into the spaces between established categories. In these spaces, created by acts of refusal as well as creation, new possibilities arise for imagining what youth, the digital, and indigeneity can mean