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http://ecde.aau.edu.et/jspui/handle/123456789/542| Title: | Positive Parenting: An Ethnographic Study of Storytelling for Socialization of Children in Ethiopia |
| Authors: | Dr. Tadesse Jaleta Jirata |
| Keywords: | Research Report |
| Issue Date: | 2014 |
| Publisher: | Individual Researcher |
| Abstract: | The purpose is to discuss how the tradition of intergenerational storytelling provides parents with contexts for the socialization of children. |
| Description: | In this article, I discuss how the tradition of intergenerational storytelling provides parents with contexts for the socialization of children. My discussion draws on observations of family storytelling events and interviews with parents and children among the Guji-Oromo in southern Ethiopia. Through ethnographic analysis, I show that, among the Guji-Oromo, storytelling provides occasions for positive communication between parents and children, which in turn are effective in the process of socialization. I present three socialization outcomes that parents seek to achieve through storytelling: cautioning children, motivating children to learn from adults, and heightening children’s respect for the value of adult supervision. I also discuss how these practices empower children to fit their actions to accepted norms and values. Parents among the Guji-Oromo perform and interpret folktales with the purpose of entertaining and educating children, and I argue that this process is a child-friendly means of socialization. |
| URI: | http://ecde.aau.edu.et/jspui/handle/123456789/542 |
| Appears in Collections: | Research report/ journal article, book/ proceeding chapter, |
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