Schools as Agencies of Protection in Namibia and Swaziland: Can They Prevent Dropout and Child Labor in the Context of HIV/AIDS and Poverty?

Autor/in	Nordtveit, Bjorn Harald
Titel	Schools as Agencies of Protection in Namibia and Swaziland: Can They Prevent Dropout and Child Labor in the Context of HIV/AIDS and Poverty?
Quelle	In: Comparative Education Review, 54 (2010) 2, S.223-242 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0010-4086
DOI	10.1086/651261
Schlagwörter	Poverty; Child Abuse; Caregivers; Child Labor; Foreign Countries; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS); School Role; Child Welfare; Educational Policy; Dropouts; Child Safety; Socialization; Prevention; Case Studies; Namibia; Swaziland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Armut; Abuse of children; Abuse; Child; Children; Kindesmissbrauch; Missbrauch; Kind; Kinder; Caregiver; Carer; Betreuungsperson; Pfleger; Child labour; Kinderarbeit; Ausland; Kindeswohl; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Drop-out; Drop-outs; Dropout; Early leavers; Schulversagen; Socialisation; Sozialisation; Prävention; Vorbeugung; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study
Abstract	This article addresses a particular area of research in the field of education and child protection: the protective role of schools in the contexts of HIV/AIDS and poverty. Such adverse situations may lead children not to enroll in school or to drop out of school and subsequently to be subjected to abusive child labor and, in some cases, the worst forms of child labor (WFCL). The author argues that the mutually reinforcing relationship of HIV/AIDS and poverty in many countries is leading to increasing child labor and that schools need to respond to this situation through policies that protect vulnerable children from dropping out and from abuse when they are at school. Further, the author demonstrates that the HIV/AIDS pandemic has led to a breakdown of traditional and family-based safety networks in many communities, adding to the difficult situation experienced by orphans, children who are heads of families, and children who are caregivers to sick parents. The school emerges as the institution that can take over some of the protective and socializing roles that parents and the community have traditionally provided. (Contains 16 footnotes.) (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10