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Camfield, Laura 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0165-9857 and Tafere, Yisak
(2011)
‘Good for children?’ Local understandings versus universal prescriptions: Evidence from three Ethiopian communities.
In:
Children and the Capability Approach: Child Labour, Education and Participation.
Palgrave Macmillan, UK, pp. 220-221.
Abstract
Worldwide there have been many studies about understandings of well-being (reviewed in Alkire 2002; Camfield 2006), i.e. what constitutes and contributes to a life that people have reason to value in particular contexts . This chapter reports differences between Ethiopian children and their caregivers in expressed understandings of a good life and what is needed to achieve this. It explores whether the capability approach can be used to bridge the gap between shared local understandings of a good life and the universal prescriptions of global bodies such as UNICEF on what is ‘good for children’. The chapter uses quantitative and qualitative data from Young Lives, a longitudinal study of childhood poverty, comprising group interviews and activities with a sub-sample of children (aged 11 to 13), caregivers, and community informants from three urban and rural communities who explore what constitutes well-being or a good life for children in their community . The qualitative data is supplemented by analyses of responses from children and their caregivers to questions on their values, aspirations, and experiences of subjective well-being in the second round of Young Lives survey . The chapter begins by reviewing literature on understandings of well-being in Ethiopia and describing the methods used to generate the data reported in Section 13.3. It then contrasts the diverse understandings of children and adults and explores the extent to which they can be usefully understood within Nussbaum’s meta-framework of central human capabilities.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| 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: | 06 Feb 2012 11:15 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Apr 2024 07:32 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/36796 |
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