The Rural Child and the Ambivalence of Education in Zimbabwe: What Can Bricolage Do?

Through ethnographic investigation, this study shows that the different linguistic behavior of girls and boys in the village of Oyoun Al-Wadi in Syria is due to gendered linguistic ideologies and attitudes that are utilized in different ways to project gendered (feminine or masculine) and spatial (local or supralocal) identities. Social meanings are gleaned from the naturally occurring speech of 72 speakers aged 6–18 and 29–57 to illuminate the ideologies and attitudes that result in inter- and intra-speaker variation between and among boys and girls and highlight the importance of both the community of practice and the speech community in investigating linguistic variation. The study also highlights the growth of the children’s sociolinguistic competence and their awareness from a very young age of the ideologies and attitudes that exist in their community and their capability to build on them. The results of this awareness are highly observed in preadolescents, particularly boys.

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Improving Rural Child Care: A Community-University Partnership

Serving Children and Families Through Community-University Partnerships: Success Stories - Outreach Scholarship ◽

10.1007/978-1-4615-5053-2_9 ◽

1999 ◽

pp. 59-63 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Ronald L. Mullis ◽

Alisa S. Ghazvini

Keyword(s):

Child Care ◽

Rural Child ◽

University Partnership

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Managing the Impacts of Full-Day Kindergarten on Rural Child Care Centres in Ontario

Journal of Childhood Studies ◽

10.18357/jcs.v42i2.17839 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 42 (2) ◽

pp. 22

Author(s):

Ogochukwu Chinelo Udenigwe ◽

Donna Lero

Keyword(s):

Child Care ◽

Rural Communities ◽

Service Planning ◽

Survival Strategies ◽

Child Care Centre ◽

Rural Child ◽

Telephone Interviews ◽

Full Day Kindergarten ◽

Full Day ◽

Service Managers

<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="section"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>Evidence suggests that the introduction of full-day kindergarten (FDK) in Ontario poses challenges to the child care sector; however, there is a dearth of information on the unique struggles faced by the rural child care sector as a result of the implementation of FDK. Furthermore, little is known about survival strategies adopted by rural child care centres. Telephone interviews with seven consolidated municipal service managers (CMSMs), who are responsible for service planning and support, revealed the actions taken to aid rural communities. Telephone interviews with nine rural child care centre directors/operators highlighted their strategies for managing the challenges presented by FDK and revealed the most pressing problems facing the rural child care sector. </span></p></div></div></div></div>

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