A Role for Black Seniors in Educare: A Community Assessment.

Autor/in	Moller, Valerie
Institution	Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria (South Africa).
Titel	A Role for Black Seniors in Educare: A Community Assessment.
Quelle	(1990), (114 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISBN	0-7969-0847-8
Schlagwörter	Adult Day Care; Adult Education; Child Caregivers; Community Attitudes; Community Programs; Day Care Centers; Foreign Countries; Grandparents; Intergenerational Programs; Nursing Homes; Older Adults; Parent Attitudes; Preschool Education; Social Change; Training; Urban Areas; South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Caregiver; Caregivers; Carer; Child; Children; Kinderbetreuung; Day care centres; Hort; Ausland; Großeltern; Sonderheim; Älterer Erwachsener; Elternverhalten; Pre-school education; Vorschulerziehung; Sozialer Wandel; Ausbildung; Urban area; Stadtregion; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	This report discusses findings from a review of a plan of the South African KwaMashu Christian Care Society (KMCCS) for introducing an educare program in which active older women give in-service training to grandmothers and other childminders who look after preschool children at home. Before launching the proposed program, a KMCCS committee conducted a study in 1987 with the help of the University of Natal to determine community reactions to this educare concept. A total of 302 residents were surveyed, of whom approximately 75 percent were women. Two-thirds had children of their own and one-third were grandmothers. The major finding was that the KMCCS educare program would be wholeheartedly accepted, as would a training program for women of all ages. It was also found that there was general support for the concept of institutional care for the aged and a feeling that traditional respect for the elderly is not necessarily affected by the perceived loss of the elder's role in modern industrial society. The survey resulted in a recommendation that the ZamaZulu Nkosi Centre, an old-age home, should proceed with its proposed educare program. A total of 25 tables are included, and 4 appendices describe characteristics of the sample, a map of the area, a circular sent to survey participants reporting on the results of the survey, and a leaflet advertising the Khulakahle Childminding Association and Training Program. Contains 7 references. (LB)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC