Community understandings of childhood transitions in Ethiopia: Different for girls?

Camfield, Laura ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0165-9857 and Tafere, Yisak (2011) Community understandings of childhood transitions in Ethiopia: Different for girls? Children’s Geographies, 9 (2). pp. 247-262. ISSN 1473-3285

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Abstract

The paper explores the perspectives of caregivers and other adults on the nature and timing of childhood transitions, elicited through group discussions in five Ethiopian communities, as reflective of the community norms that shape childhood transitions. The paper uses data from Young Lives, a longitudinal study of children growing up in poverty, to investigate the transitions made by girls from childhood to the onset of puberty. It argues that these transitions are rarely linear, singular, or focused on ‘learning’, but instead multiple and often contradictory. While girls are said to be constrained by lack of opportunities, the main constraint to successful transitions in the communities discussed in the paper is having too many potentially contradictory opportunities, too soon.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development)
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Gender and Development Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Impact Evaluation Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Life Course, Migration and Wellbeing University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Depositing User:	Laura Camfield
Date Deposited:	30 Mar 2011 08:28
Last Modified:	09 Apr 2024 07:45
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/24925
DOI:	10.1080/14733285.2011.562385

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