Constructing a conception of childhood in Africa

dc.contributor.advisorViljoen, Frans
dc.contributor.coadvisorSkelton, Ann, 1961-
dc.contributor.emailfrans.viljoen@uo.ac.zaen_ZA
dc.contributor.postgraduateMiamingi, Remember Philip Daniel
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-18T08:28:42Z
dc.date.available2022-02-18T08:28:42Z
dc.date.created2014
dc.date.issued2014
dc.descriptionDissertation (MSc)--University of Pretoria, 2014.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThe thesis argues that there is a common core conception of childhood in traditional African communities and that this understanding of childhood is different from the image of childhood in the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the African Children‟s Charter. In order to successfully implement children‟s rights in Africa care must be taken to ensure that the cultural norms and values that inform the conception of childhood in Africa is accommodated. Failure to do this is problematic on at least two grounds. First, it increases the economic and social costs of implementing children‟s rights in many African communities. Second, implementing children‟s rights norms that are considered by some communities in Africa as alien without adopting those norms to the African context will continue to increase the resistance of local communities to children‟s rights. Such an approach will be seen as replacing local cultural values with alien cultural norms. This could result in multiple-lived experience for children, weakened family structures and support and, possibly, compromised cultural identities of children. To minimise these consequences, the thesis recommends the application of the norms in these two children‟s rights treaties in a context-and child-specific manner. It is further argued that a „universal pluralistic‟ theoretical framework will facilitate reasonable deference to local contexts that further the cause of children‟s rights and.en_ZA
dc.description.availabilityUnrestricteden_ZA
dc.description.degreeLLDen_ZA
dc.description.departmentCentre for Human Rightsen_ZA
dc.identifier.citation*en_ZA
dc.identifier.otherA2015en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/84063
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherUniversity of Pretoria
dc.rights© 2021 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria.
dc.subjectChildhooden_ZA
dc.subjectTraditional valuesen_ZA
dc.subjectAfrica children's charteren_ZA
dc.subjectAfrican communitiesen_ZA
dc.subjectCRCen_ZA
dc.subjectUCTDen_ZA
dc.titleConstructing a conception of childhood in Africaen_ZA
dc.typeDissertationen_ZA

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