Agency in Early Childhood Learning and Development in Cameroon

Autor/in	Nsamenang, A. Bame
Titel	Agency in Early Childhood Learning and Development in Cameroon
Quelle	In: Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 9 (2008) 3, S.211 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1463-9491
DOI	10.2304/ciec.2008.9.3.211
Schlagwörter	Family Life; Child Labor; Parent Child Relationship; Foreign Countries; Parenting Styles; Cultural Influences; African Culture; Responsibility; Child Development; Peer Relationship; Social Attitudes; Childrens Rights; Child Rearing; Socialization; Young Children; Cameroon + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Child labour; Kinderarbeit; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Ausland; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Africa; Culture; Afrika; Kultur; Verantwortungsübernahme; Zuständigkeit; Kindesentwicklung; Peer-Beziehungen; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; 'Children''s rights'; Kindesrecht; Kindererziehung; Socialisation; Sozialisation; Frühe Kindheit; Kamerun
Abstract	This article focuses on agency, as a natural disposition in children to be active and participative. Africa's parenting attitudes and education in African family traditions encourage and foster children's responsible agency in family life, cultural and economic activities, and their own developmental learning from an early, especially within the peer culture. It is amazing that in an era of accentuating efforts to understand and actualize the UNCRC provisions on children's citizenship and participation, international advocacy persists in stigmatizing as child labor the centuries-old productive agency of Africa's children and youth, which disables almost 70 percent of the continent's population, instead of working to enhance and learn from it. The article critiques the conceptual developmental and core rights issues pertaining to children's agency, substantiating the discourse with illustrative impressions on the changing but "normative" child agency in family traditions in Cameroon. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10