Nobody’s Perfect: Making sense of a parenting skills workshop through ethnographic research in a low-income neighbourhood in Santiago de Chile
| Autor: | Daniela Tapia, Marjorie Murray |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Low income
05 social sciences Vulnerability 050109 social psychology Child development nobody 0506 political science Political Science and International Relations Ethnography 050602 political science & public administration Early childhood intervention 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Parenting skills Sociology Social psychology Neighbourhood (mathematics) |
| Zdroj: | Critical Social Policy. 42:3-21 |
| ISSN: | 1461-703X 0261-0183 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0261018320983988 |
| Popis: | Nadie es Perfecto (Nobody’s Perfect, or NEP) is a parenting skills workshop aimed at ‘sharing experiences and receiving guidance on everyday problems to strengthen child development’. This article explores this workshop in terms of its relationship with the daily lives of participants, based on one year of fieldwork focused on families with young children in a low-income neighbourhood in Santiago. While caregivers frame their parenting efforts as aiming to ‘hacer lo mejor posible’ (do their best) under difficult circumstances, our study found that facilitators take an anachronistic and homogenizing view of participants. Embracing a universalistic perspective of child development, they discourage participation and debate, focusing instead on providing concrete advice that limits the potential of the workshops. This article argues that by ignoring the different living situations of families in this socioeconomic context, NEP reproduces a prejudiced view of poor subjects that sees them as deficient and incapable of change. |
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