E212 Course Children And Online Activities Book 1

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Chittagong Bangladesh

Yasir and Yamin twin boys, live in an apartment, economically well-off with good living conditions. Not needed to work or look after family.

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Intelligent and ambitious, they go to a private English-speaking school. They were told how important it was to do better academically than their father as he had with his. In Bangladesh boys can do whatever they like, girls are more conservative

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Chittagong Bangladesh

Maya: Age 15 girl, living in Relative and Absolute Poverty
lives in quarters for railway workers, economically poor and poor living conditions. Not able to work, expected to look after home and child.

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Maya ran away from home, got married and pregnant age 15. Now she has a daughter called Muktah.
As a wife and mother Maya is cut off from the outside world and the lives of her own friends; her life now was to be a mother and wife. An education could give her freedom. Maya’s husband won’t let her.

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Oakland:
Brian: Age 8 boy living in Relative Poverty
Nuclear family setup (mum dad children) economically poor.

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Conceptually normal Western life, he could play out, had an array of toys. Has large extended family around him.
State education, very consumer orientated wanting Nintendo, new games and toys

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Oakland:
Sophie Lyons: Age 12 girl
Non-Conventional family setup, (2 mums, divorced) economically well-off with good living conditions. Not needed to work or look after family.

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attends a small private school; in previous school being white was the minority
has lots of planned after school activities.
Will have her Bar Mitzvah age 13 marking her as an adult

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Cape Town South Africa.
Asanda Mashukan: Age 15 girl. Relative poverty

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violence, gangsters are commonplace. Feels unsafe at night; shootings, and boys harassing you. School has given a chance to express my views, express myself as a child; it has taught me about the rights that I do have. She knew to do this through getting a good education and a better future career.
My family expects me to study overseas, and be successful.
schools are beginning to reflect the multi-racial makeup of the city, with black, white, coloured, and Asian pupils.

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Cape Town South Africa.
Joshua Rhode: Age 8 economically well off educated family, School is mainly white and coloured, has lots of activities, is important for knowledge

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both parents work. A child is like a little person whose learning how to be moulded into an adult.
The good things about being a child are getting toys and playing with friends.
The bad things about being a child is that you don’t know right from wrong.
I can’t walk in the street because people steal children, must be supervised at all times.

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Activity 1.3 perspectives on case studies
Ruby Noble, on Chittagong Bangladesh;
a child is not determined by age but by responsibility; socioeconomic status and gender impact on this, Boys are no longer children when they start working to bring home money for the family.
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1. Class, socioeconomic status, gender, education all affect and impact on their life chances. Wide gap between the more affluent and those from a poor family

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Activity 1.3 perspectives on case studies
Barrie Thorne on Oakland;
ethnicity and social class dive people. Enormous inequality that is racialised,

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2. Ethnically and geographically diverse and divided. Racialised inequality, high levels of migration historically and ethnically. 25% of children are below the poverty line, life chances and education are wide apart for wealthier and poorer children.

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Activity 1.3 perspectives on case studies
Zurayah Abass on South Africa;
ethnically diverse but black and coloured children are disproportionately affected by deprivation. Almost 50% of population live in poverty and impact on health education and job prospects. Affluent buy health and high quality education, poor cannot. Children are exposed to crime and accept it as part of life. Violent crime, segregation, education and family circumstances all affect the child's life chances.

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3. Ethnically diverse but predominantly coloured people. 50% live below the poverty line, impacts on health, life expectancy and educational opportunities. Crime is affluent, poor children are exposed to it and accept it as normal. Violent crime, segregation, education and family circumstances all affect the child's life chances.

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ONLINE ACTIVITY 2.1 Cunningham argues there were two eras during which anxiety about children was particularly high: the Protestant Reformation and the Century of the Child (the twentieth century).

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The century of the child highlighted a fear of the 'degeneration of the race' with a view to stopping unsuitable people from breeding.

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ONLINE ACTIVITY 2.2 the ‘cult of the child’ reached its height in the Victorian era (1837–1901).

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people worried about childhood and children’s lives. It was the great age of social reform in which campaigners agitated against child labour

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ONLINE ACTIVITY 2.3 Oral history is open to contestation; we remember the good things

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The person was actually there and witnessed it first hand, there recollection will be based on their remembrance of actual happenings at the time. This tells the story of a happening to an everyday 'average' person

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ONLINE ACTIVITY 2.4 historians looked at child labour and analysed the impact that children’s wages had on family incomes.

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When children worked they did so for their whole family, handing over their wages to their parents; their income was used for the benefit of everyone in the family

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ONLINE ACTIVITY 3.4 The video clips illustrate the value of close observation in studying children’s development in the context of their everyday lives, conversations and activities.
Max - poor health, lives in a semi-detached house with mum dad sister. He views his ‘mummy Laura’ as equally as his own mum as she looks after him in the afternoons.
Sadia – English was not her first language Bengali, live in 2nd floor flat, always with her family
Camilla – always with her twin Rachel, live in detached house, learning at home and nursery, quite confident

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They have very different daily lives, activities, relationships and interests. Differences in parental practices and in the personality of each child and their way of being in the world. You may have noticed different levels of energy, confidence and engagement between the children as they play.

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ONLINE ACTIVITY 4.1 Ikpeng children
The anthropologist film-maker produced an ethnographic account of Ikpeng children’s lives, but it is also a constructed and edited account designed to show minority-world audiences the differences and similarities between themselves and others.
Ethnography, as well as participant observation, has been heavily critiqued as a research method, they can be controlled in what they show so can be considered unreliable.

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It shows girls in their natural state of dress whereas the boys have taken on the influence of the western world wearing their clothes.
The boys showing and using the killing sticks and what they were used for suggests that the influence of the white person has distorted the activities of the tribe people.

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ONLINE ACTIVITY 5.2 Being a girl,
Moni; Chittagong. In Bangladesh inequality of gender is rife,

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girls can cook, boys can’t; girls fetch water, boys don’t. But boys drive rickshaws, girls don’t; and boys drive lorries, girls don’t.
Our society doesn’t value girls; I want more independence, more freedom. No-one listens to me now.
In our country, boys of my age are never forced into marriage but girls are forced into marriage.

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ONLINE ACTIVITY 5.2 Being a girl,
Terina and best friend, Angela; Oakland, both are active consumers.

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Love clothes and have mostly the same clothes. They ‘buy’ into all style and brand stuff these days. they relate money to clothes to popularity.

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ONLINE ACTIVITY 5.2 Being a girl,
Nonhlanhla Cape Town, Race differences and High risk of harm; different for black and white girls;

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different music, friends of a different race group.
I think girls should behave in a very mature way because that is what is expected of them, to act mature. Teenage pregnancy is a problem, like a trend or something or it’s fashion.
I think in Cape Town there’s a big risk of getting raped. Girls are supposed to stay inside. I can’t go to clubs because in clubs there are a lot of risks.