ABSTRACT

Knowledge about how social changes affect children’s access to education in Africa is still limited. Intending to bridge this gap, this article discusses the effect of the emerging social changes on children’s right to indigenous knowledge and formal education among the Guji people− the agro-pastoral society in Ethiopia. The article demonstrates how children’s present realities deprive their right to not only school education but also the indigenous ways of learning. It presents that the fast-changing social realities among the agro-pastoral society impacted children’s right to education in two ways. Firstly, the changes affect the indigenous ways of intergenerational knowledge transmission. Secondly, the changes constrained the quality of children’s learning in school and limited the relevance of formal education for children’s local ways of life. Data discussed in this article were collected through six months of ethnographic fieldwork among the Guji people in southern Ethiopia.

摘要

关于社会变化如何影响非洲儿童接受教育的知识仍然有限。为了弥合这一差距，本文讨论了新兴的社会变化对古吉人（埃塞俄比亚农牧社会）儿童获得本土知识和正规教育的权利的影响。这篇文章展示了儿童的当前现实如何剥夺了他们不仅获得学校教育的权利，而且还剥夺了他们接受本土学习方式的权利。它表明，农牧社会中快速变化的社会现实从两个方面影响了儿童的受教育权。首先，这些变化影响了代际知识传播的本土方式。其次，这些变化限制了儿童在学校的学习质量，限制了正规教育与儿童当地生活方式的相关性。