Discourses of Education, Protection, and Child Labor: Case Studies of Benin, Namibia and Swaziland

Autor/in	Nordtveit, Bjorn Harald
Titel	Discourses of Education, Protection, and Child Labor: Case Studies of Benin, Namibia and Swaziland
Quelle	In: Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 31 (2010) 5, S.699-712 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0159-6306
Schlagwörter	Poverty; Child Abuse; Compulsory Education; Childrens Rights; Food Standards; Child Labor; Discourse Analysis; Foreign Countries; Case Studies; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS); Financial Support; International Organizations; Educational Attitudes; Benin; Namibia; Swaziland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Armut; Abuse of children; Abuse; Child; Children; Kindesmissbrauch; Missbrauch; Kind; Kinder; Schulpflicht; 'Children''s rights'; Kindesrecht; Lebensmittelgesetz; Child labour; Kinderarbeit; Diskursanalyse; Ausland; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Finanzielle Förderung; International organisation; International organisations; International organization; Internationale Organisation; Educational attitude; Bildungsverhalten; Erziehungseinstellung
Abstract	This article analyses discontinuities between local, national and international discourse in the fields of education, protection of children, and child labor, using Benin, Namibia and Swaziland as case studies. In Benin, child abuse and child labor are related to poverty, whereas in Namibia and Swaziland they are also interrelated with HIV/AIDS. In these countries, the notion of childhood is seen as continuous with adulthood, and the change from education to work is not abrupt and age-determined, but a smooth transition. The international discourse defines children in binary terms (child or adult), and promotes free and compulsory education for children, without recognizing the direct and indirect costs of education. Projects based on an international discourse may have little relevance in a poverty context where it is natural to make children work to ensure food safety. Local communities consider children from a logic of community survival; the external aid agencies consider them from a logic of individual children's rights. There is a need to find a bridge between these two interpretations of childhood. (Contains 7 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10