Children's Environmental Learning, Knowledge, and Interactions under Conditions of Socio-Economic Transformation: The Possibilities of Change.

Autor/in	Katz, Cindi R.
Titel	Children's Environmental Learning, Knowledge, and Interactions under Conditions of Socio-Economic Transformation: The Possibilities of Change.
Quelle	(1988), (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Agricultural Production; Child Development; Child Role; Children; Family Financial Resources; Futures (of Society); Geography; Rural Development; Rural Environment; Rural Family; Social Science Research; Socioeconomic Influences; Sudan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Agriculture; Production; Landwirtschaft; Produktion; Agrarproduktion; Landwirtschaftliche Produktion; Kindesentwicklung; Child; Kind; Kinder; Future; Society; Zukunft; Geografie; Rural environment; Development; Ländliches Milieu; Entwicklung; Landfamilie; Social scientific research; Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung; Sozioökonomischer Faktor
Abstract	This paper argues that the socio-economic transformation caused by the 1971 Suki Agricultural project in central eastern Sudan has had contradictory effects on children. The Suki Agricultural Project was expected to transform the rural economy from production for consumption to production for exchange and profit. Ten years after the project's initiation, 10-year-old children were observed for their roles in agricultural production and their provision of subsistence within the household and their acquisition of knowledge and skills. Since the 1971 project changed production and reproduction as well as the local ecology, the project required greater labor contributions from children. Deforestation associated with the project meant that children had to spend more and more time collecting less and less accessible firewood, while the rise of the cash economy turned wood and water into commodities and increasingly involved children not only in their procurement but their sale. These activities, along with the production and sale of other commodities such as garden produce and charcoal, and including their own labor, left the children little time for play or formal education. The future for these rural children included: (1) labor migration of males from the village; (2) low job skills resulting from little formal education; (3) decline in rural productivity; (4) women taking a more active role in agricultural production; and (5) an adult population unable or unwilling to carry out the production tasks from the Suki Agricultural Project. An 11-item bibliography is included. (DJC)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC