"Even if She Learns, She Doesn't Understand Properly". Children's Understandings of Illbeing and Poverty in Five Ethiopian Communities

Autor/in	Camfield, Laura
Titel	"Even if She Learns, She Doesn't Understand Properly". Children's Understandings of Illbeing and Poverty in Five Ethiopian Communities
Quelle	In: Social Indicators Research, 96 (2010) 1, S.85-112 (28 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0303-8300
DOI	10.1007/s11205-009-9468-z
Schlagwörter	Poverty; Foreign Countries; Social Isolation; Children; Nutrition; Educational Attainment; Cultural Context; Childhood Attitudes; Ethiopia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Armut; Ausland; Soziale Isolation; Child; Kind; Kinder; Ernährung; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Äthiopien
Abstract	The paper argues on the basis of data from "Young Lives", an international study of childhood poverty, and an extensive review of child-centered poverty studies that experiences of relative poverty and social exclusion are as common and corrosive in contemporary Ethiopia as North America and Europe. If taken seriously, this insight could broaden the focus of child poverty reduction from nutrition and education to include the psychosocial costs of lacking the culturally-specific resources required for full participation in society. The paper makes a number of methodological points of value to researchers undertaking similar studies: firstly, poverty can be explored by asking about illbeing; secondly, children's conceptions of poverty are profoundly social and context-specific; and thirdly, young children are just as able to address these themes as older ones. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10