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Description:This book is one of the productive results from a multiyear collaboration between the University of Bergen and the University of Ghana that began in 2002. Several of the chapters are written by those whose graduate study and research were supported by this collaboration. As a result, the book contains detailed information close to the ground, generated through interviews and careful observations. Furthermore, the geographic diversity of Ghana is well represented.The book argues that there is a crisis in the care of babies and children in Ghana. Several factors have contributed to this crisis, as Christine Oppong details in an insightful discussion in one of the introductory chapters. Time among adults has become scarcer. Women’s workloads have increased. Labor migration results in male migrants’ absence from children’s households and female migrants’ lack of kin support in child care. Cooperative practices of caring such as fosterage are not working well today. Men are avoiding their responsibilities as fathers. As a result, Oppong writes, women are in ‘an increasingly solitary struggle to maintain self and children’ (p. 50). Mothers are engaged in a ‘balance and reshuffle’, as Peter Kodzo Atakuma Agbodza says, writing about child care in Dzemeni, a Volta Lake resettlement community: ‘they carried out adjustments that ensured [the] survival of all’, but which were not always organized towards their young children’s wellbeing (p. 237).We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Child Care in a Globalizing World: Perspectives from Ghana. To get started finding Child Care in a Globalizing World: Perspectives from Ghana, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 347

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: BRIC7University of Bergen

Release: 2012

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Description: This book is one of the productive results from a multiyear collaboration between the University of Bergen and the University of Ghana that began in 2002. Several of the chapters are written by those whose graduate study and research were supported by this collaboration. As a result, the book contains detailed information close to the ground, generated through interviews and careful observations. Furthermore, the geographic diversity of Ghana is well represented.The book argues that there is a crisis in the care of babies and children in Ghana. Several factors have contributed to this crisis, as Christine Oppong details in an insightful discussion in one of the introductory chapters. Time among adults has become scarcer. Women’s workloads have increased. Labor migration results in male migrants’ absence from children’s households and female migrants’ lack of kin support in child care. Cooperative practices of caring such as fosterage are not working well today. Men are avoiding their responsibilities as fathers. As a result, Oppong writes, women are in ‘an increasingly solitary struggle to maintain self and children’ (p. 50). Mothers are engaged in a ‘balance and reshuffle’, as Peter Kodzo Atakuma Agbodza says, writing about child care in Dzemeni, a Volta Lake resettlement community: ‘they carried out adjustments that ensured [the] survival of all’, but which were not always organized towards their young children’s wellbeing (p. 237).We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Child Care in a Globalizing World: Perspectives from Ghana. To get started finding Child Care in a Globalizing World: Perspectives from Ghana, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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