A Comparative Analysis of the Views of Zimbabwean Rural and Urban Adolescents on Children’s Household Work  

Oleh:

MUSHORIWA, T.D. ; CHITSAMATANGA, B.B. ; MBOKOCHENA, E.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah nasional - terakreditasi DIKTI
Dalam koleksi: SOSIOHUMANIKA: Jurnal Pendidikan Sains Sosial dan Kemanusiaan vol. 6 no. 2 (Nov. 2013), page 117-124.
Topik: Household work; views of rural and urban adolescents; comparative analysis; Zimbabwean society; and study and play
Fulltext: 01.mushoriwa.cs_.sosio_.her.pdf (231.93KB)

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It is important to study children’s views on the household work they perform, because the studies, for example J.J. Goodnow (1996), have again and again demonstrated that the way children are brought up directly impacts on their future lives. How children are treated and the work that they are expected to accomplish in the home have a bearing on almost all aspects of their development. This article presents the results of a study on the views of rural and urban adolescents on children’s household work. Speci?cally, the study-tapped adolescents’ views regarding the age at which children should begin household work, the value of children’s household work, and whether children should be remunerated for doing household work. A total of 200 adolescents were involved in this study. Data were collected from the respondents through a questionnaire supplemented by interviews. A crosstab was used to report results in percentages. Generally, there was support for children’s household work, especially from rural respondents. The majority of the respondents felt that children should begin household work between 8 and 10 years and that they should not be paid for such work. The study recommended, among other things, that both rural and urban children should help with household chores, but they should be afforded opportunities to study and to play.

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