Work
Jack Monroe The Face of Modern Poverty
The ‘A Girl Called Jack’ blog has been widely featured in the media over the last few years – the story of a young single mother forced into a life of
poverty by a system that does not allow her to balance motherhood and a job as a call handler with the fire service.
In this articulate post, she describes the painful steps she makes to try and make ends meet:
Discover More Hunger hurts
Discover More Jack Monroe Face Modern Poverty
As a follow-up to this, students could look at this Guardian article on the above link which gives us an update on Jack and her life. One issue that Jack suggests as being part of the problem is the lack of food education in schools and an over-reliance on ready meals. Students could look at the national curriculum guidelines around the teaching of food technology (bearing in mind its recent abolishment as an A-level subject) and money management/applying for jobs.
More Resources from Discovering Sociology
Begin by brainstorming the term ‘science’. What does this conjure up for students? En...
religion
This will be challenging for some students as they can struggle to see the differences within ...
religion
Work in small groups to think of ways in which America can be said to have a civil religion.
religion
Textbooks provide us with a range of examples of ways in which religion can be used as an advo...
religion
Peter Berger suggests that religion acts as a ‘sacred canopy’ for people and that ...
religion
It could be useful to begin by reminding students of what Feminism is (and what it is not) at ...
religion
This Radio 4 video explains the tricky ‘falsification’ concept in a clear and acce...
religion
Perhaps one of the most popularised phrases attributed to Marx is that religion is the ‘...
religion
Following on from Science, Rationality and Religion, which introduces the concepts of a closed...
religion
Before moving onto or starting to examine science as a belief system, students can find it helpfu...
religion
