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Make It Better:How can we create a more âvisceral connectionâ with the sustainability agenda, and help overcome âclimate fatigue, social silence and stealth denialâ?
The Impact of Short Breaks on Families with a Disabled Child: Report One of the Quantitative Phase
This document reports on a cross-sectional sample of families with a disabled child using short breaks in England; it describes the characteristics of children and families using short breaks, the nature and quantity of the short breaks they are using, their experiences of and satisfaction with short breaks and which factors are associated with a range of outcomes for family carers, disabled children and their siblings. This report uses both quantitative data derived from standardised questions and qualitative data from family membersâ written responses to open-ended questions in the survey instruments
The impact of short breaks on families with a disabled child over time : the second report from the quantitative study
The impacts of short break provision on disabled children and families: an international literature review
For over 30 years, short breaks have been part of the landscape of support provision for families with a disabled child. Historically, the term ârespite careâ has been used in much of the research literature concerning short breaks for families with a disabled child. However, âshort breaksâ has become the preferred term, partly due to the negative connotations of family carers requiring ârespiteâ from their children, and partly because short breaks now encompass a much wider range of supports than out-of-home placement in specialist residential facilities (Cramer and Carlin, 2008). As such, the term âshort breaksâ will be used throughout this review, with the exception of direct quotes from research studies where the term ârespiteâ is used by study participants or study authors
Linking the loop : voicing dimensions of home economics
The aim of this study is to analyse how individuals working within the field of Home Economics describe the profession against the background of the Position Statement published by the International Federation for Home Economics (IFHE) in 2008 and discussion papers detailing the Position Statement published in the first issue of the International Journal of Home Economics (IJHE). This paper links individual statements on the meaning of Home Economics provided for Linking the Loop project with four key dimensions or areas of practice of Home Economics, as defined in the IFHE Position Statement, and reflects the statements against generational theory. A qualitative content analysis of 94 statements provided by Home Economists around the world provides an insight to the variety in understanding and defining the fieldâa process that is essential to secure a viable future for the profession.Peer reviewe
Check your Tech, whose responsibility is it when cyberharassment occurs?
Social media has become a dominant aspect of many peopleâs lives in many countries. Unfortunately that resulted in widespread issues of bullying and harassment. While frequently this harrassment is intentional, there have been occasions where automated processes have been inadvertently responsible for this sort of harassment. The software tools that allow people to harass others could have further features added to them to reduce the amount of harassment that occurs, but more often than not, where programmers are developing these systems then donât anticipate the range of ways that these technologies will be used (this is called âconsequence scanningâ). The authors of this paper are developing a new digital ethics curriculum for the instruction of computer science students. In this paper we present two case studies we have developed with a focus on cyberharrassment. Each case study is accompanied by a list of specific questions to be used by the instructor to allow students to evaluate the implications of developing social media systems as well as a generic case studies checksheet that allow deeper reflection on the intended and unintended consequences of introducing new technologies
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Does the Tin Man Have a Heart?: Organizational Rhetoric and the Public Debate Over Precarity in the Amazon-New York Times Controversy
This thesis is concerned with public discourse and cultural controversy around labor precarity in high-technology organizations. Through analyzing a case study, in which a New York Times exposé of Amazon’s treatment of white-collar workers inspired thousands to join a conversation on labor rights, this thesis contributes to discovering how organizational identity is co-constructed with the public and journalism’s (constrained) role in labor activism. Just as the New York Times article exposed the still present reality of labor exploitation in the “new economy,” this project seeks to rupture the myth of utopian labor conditions in the high-technology sector. This thesis examines how organizational rhetors discursively maintain legitimacy and authority while depicting labor precarity by reframing these practices as allowing employees freedom and choice. The project also uses the methodological tool of external organizational rhetoric to uncover how external stakeholders interpret and add to controversy, expanding the scope the story through their discursive representations of labor precarity. I conclude this project with some thoughts on the lasting impact of the controversy on Amazon’s organizational identity, as well as some future possibilities for labor resistance against precarity.</p
Girlhoods and social action: an intersectional approach to working-class girls' participation
In this thesis I explore how working-class, mainly racially-minoritised girls at three schools in Londonâs poorest boroughs participate in social action.
There are multiple discourses about what it means to be a girl in the contemporary global North. These inform how girlhood is thought about, talked about, and practised, and shape expectations about how girls should be. The âsuccessful girlâ is expected to attain academic and extracurricular achievements that destine her for a âsuccessfulâ future; the âgood girlâ is expected to be docile and to be caring; and girlsâ lives are shaped by ideas about authenticity or âbeing yourselfâ. Yet girls experience inequalities that can make these ideals difficult to achieve, especially working-class girls. They make important contributions to society despite experiencing significant challenges, but these girls tend to be invisible in the media and in public policy beyond concerns about their sexuality or educational attainment, and are often assumed to be White British.
An important arena in which working-class girls contribute to society is through social action. In recent decades, successive UK governments have promoted youth social action â activities that make a positive difference to others or the environment, like volunteering â through initiatives to address inequalities in access and to boost participation. These usually consider inequalities along class lines, with strategies to address them involving removing practical barriers to involvement. However, inequalities are present in the experiences of social action and its consequences as well as in access to it. They are felt not along single axes such as class or gender or race, but instead by how these categories intersect. Inequalities are also not only experienced on an individual level but are shaped by how power operates across multiple domains (Hill Collins, 2000); discourses of girlhoods are embedded in these domains. This conceptualisation of inequality and power â an intersectional approach â is missing from policy and practice concerns. Moreover, what âcountsâ as social action may be excluding important aspects of working-class girlsâ participation.
I find that working-class girls are expected to become successful by working hard at school and doing certain kinds of social action, but that this cannot guarantee their success; it therefore constitutes âhope labourâ. Expectations to be good lead to the girls having to do as they are told and spending much of their time at home, where they are expected to be caring by doing care work. I argue that this care work should be considered social action. Finally, I show that the girls value authenticity (âbeing themselvesâ) but find it difficult, and that feeling (in)authentic can both enable and constrain their social action. I identify a discourse of the authentic girl in which social action can be both self-transformation and self-expression. In doing so, I provide insight into how power and inequalities shape working-class girlsâ lives and their participation in social action, and I show how an intersectional girlhoods approach can enhance our understanding of how social action might truly be more inclusive
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