Compare and contrast in what way different child-rearing (parenting) practices, in two different countries/regions, are linked to childhood quality of life children’s outcomes
Introduction
Emerging from the importance of looking at childhood in a global perspective, this essay will reflect and compare similarities and differences between two different cultures Spain and Inuit Canada childrearing practices. In western society, childhood and child rights are understood as a socially constructed, whereas the Inuit indigenous people in Canada acknowledge children’s rights, their participation and entitlement of respect from birth. Baumrind’s parenting styles as well as the ecological system by Bronfenbrenner 's and sociocultural by Vygotsky are used to explore briefly practices of child rearing.
Definition
Barbara Rogoff (2003) defines child-rearing practices as tools employed by all societies to prepare children through customs, use of languages and learned skills from one another. Although there are few similarities between the two regions in this paper, however, culture creates deviations in the beliefs …show more content…
Spanish children’s environments are very social and mostly are spent outside playing with other children; their participation in adults gathering is encouraged but far less than the level of Inuit children. Inuit children are welcome to run around and visit different houses (ibid). This use to be normal in Spain not long ago, however, changed recent years due to parents, fear and safeguarding of their children from
Introduction
Emerging from the importance of looking at childhood in a global perspective, this essay will reflect and compare similarities and differences between two different cultures Spain and Inuit Canada childrearing practices. In western society, childhood and child rights are understood as a socially constructed, whereas the Inuit indigenous people in Canada acknowledge children’s rights, their participation and entitlement of respect from birth. Baumrind’s parenting styles as well as the ecological system by Bronfenbrenner 's and sociocultural by Vygotsky are used to explore briefly practices of child rearing.
Definition
Barbara Rogoff (2003) defines child-rearing practices as tools employed by all societies to prepare children through customs, use of languages and learned skills from one another. Although there are few similarities between the two regions in this paper, however, culture creates deviations in the beliefs …show more content…
Spanish children’s environments are very social and mostly are spent outside playing with other children; their participation in adults gathering is encouraged but far less than the level of Inuit children. Inuit children are welcome to run around and visit different houses (ibid). This use to be normal in Spain not long ago, however, changed recent years due to parents, fear and safeguarding of their children from