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Challenges to Schooling: The Voices of Street Working Children
Child Indicators Research ( IF 2.322 ) Pub Date : 2021-08-25 , DOI: 10.1007/s12187-021-09850-z
Daniel Gebretsadik Ayele 1
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This article sheds light on challenges to schooling based on a qualitative study of 24 street working children in Dilla town, Southern Ethiopia. The empirical data used in this study were gathered through repeated periods of fieldwork carried out in 2018 in Dilla town. The author used semi-participant observation, informal dialogue, in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, and self-reported diaries to obtain the empirical data. This study has also benefited from various secondary sources. As the study shows, affording expenses to be at school, combining street work and schoolwork, perceived low returns on schooling, exclusions at school, and lack of helpful home environment are conditions that challenge children's schooling endeavors. Thus, a holistic approach is necessary to ease the challenges that stand in the way of educational services for street-working children. Particularly, there is a need to provide children the necessary material and moral support they deserve (including subsidies and school feeding programs), adopt a flexible school system/ learning approach that fit the needs of those for whom it is intended, create a safe learning environment (within and outside the classroom), ensure the quality of education to enhance the hope it holds for a better future and create a conducive home environment to offer incentives for the children to pay attention to schooling so that they will grow into adults who are capable of making positive contributions to the economic and social development of societies they are in.



中文翻译:

学校教育的挑战:街头打工儿童的声音

本文基于对埃塞俄比亚南部迪拉镇 24 名街头工作儿童的定性研究,阐明了学校教育面临的挑战。本研究中使用的经验数据是通过 2018 年在迪拉镇进行的重复实地调查收集的。作者采用半参与式观察、非正式对话、深度访谈、焦点小组讨论和自我报告日记等方式获取实证数据。这项研究还受益于各种二手资料。研究表明,负担上学费用、街头工作和学校作业相结合、学校教育回报低、学校排斥以及缺乏有益的家庭环境是挑战儿童上学努力的条件。因此,有必要采取全面的方法来缓解街头工作儿童教育服务面临的挑战。特别是,需要为儿童提供他们应得的必要物质和精神支持(包括补贴和学校供餐计划),采用灵活的学校系统/学习方法,以满足其目标人群的需求,创造安全的学习环境(课堂内外),确保教育质量,增强对更美好未来的希望,创造有利的家庭环境,激励孩子们关注学校教育,使他们成长为有能力的成年人。能够为他们所在社会的经济和社会发展做出积极贡献。

更新日期:2021-08-26
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