An analysis of discourses within the context of school-linked integrated services for pregnant and parenting young women
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Abstract
In North America, over the years, varying historical, social and political discourses have been dominant in constructing the problem of teenage pregnancy and parenthood. In contemporary Canada, teen (single) parenting is framed as a social problem that needs to be solved. To understand the nature of the problem, it is important to examine the shifting social and political imperatives that shape and define teen motherhood. This study was situated within the context of school-linked integrated services that provide a host of interventions to support these young women and their children. Using an instrumental, collective case study design, this study examined three sites (Centres) that utilized a holistic, collaborative approach providing services that ranged from a schooling program, parenting courses, daycare, social assistance services, counseling as well as other varied programs. The study used a conceptual context derived from the academic and professional literature in the following three relevant areas: Foucault's poststructuralist theory of discourse and power, interventions within neo-liberal social welfare reforms, and interagency collaboration. The guiding research questions were as follows: Firstly, to understand how the teen/young mothers are perceived by frontline staff and how the teen/young mothers perceive themselves in the midst of prevailing discourses; secondly, to explore how staff at the Centres intervene to assist the teen/young mothers with the competing demands of schooling, mothering and work/life preparation; and thirdly, to examine how collaboration takes place among frontline staff to enhance the success and well-being of the teen/young mothers. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with nine teen/young mothers and fifteen frontline staff at three multi-service centers. Data were also collected through participant observations and Centre documents such as evaluation reports, annual reports, brochures and newsletters. The findings of this study revealed that the young women were mostly constructed within dominant discourses of 'risk', 'resilience', 'stigma', 'infantilization' and 'welfare dependency'. The front line staff demonstrated immense tact and sensitivity in intervening in the lives of the young women; and the interventions helped to ameliorate the negative impact of inadequate economic, social, and economic resources. A closer look at the collaborative approach highlighted several factors that hindered as well as facilitated collaboration. The young mothers in this study emerged as resilient and hopeful as their voices conveyed their struggle to balance motherhood and schooling.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.014 | 0.026 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.023 | 0.029 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.009 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.009 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".