Browsing by Author "Tesfaye, Selamawit"

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    Assessment of The Integration of Human Rights Education in Early Childhood Teachers Training: The Case of Kotebe Metropolitan University
    (AAU, 2018-09) Tesfaye, Selamawit
    This research assesses the integration of human rights education with a focus on child rights into preschools teacher’s training in Kotebe Metropolitan University.. The research aims to identify the gaps in the functioning of human rights education in the above mentioned University. The study adopted qualitative design and a case study research methodology. Data were collected from multiple sources that include seven teacher educators and teacher trainees, five participants in the Addis Ababa Bureau of Education and one FGD group of trainees. In-depth interview, FGD and observation as well as document analysis were used to carry this research. The research analysis is based on three aspects of human rights education: education about human rights, education through human rights and education for human rights. The findings of this research revealed that human rights education that is based on child rights was integrated in the curriculum of the teaching University. The different courses for the trainees that have been relayed about child rights are play, nutrition, early childhood development and life skill. But the two aspects of human rights education which are education through and for human rights are not integrated in the teaching and learning processes. The pedagogies that the school used in practice do not go along with human rights framework. There is nothing that is done on building the attitude of the trainees and other stakeholders in accordance with child rights for the trainees from the department of preschool. The practice in the kindergartens also revealed that children’s rights are still violated specially in the disciplinary measures that the teachers use. The results of the study in the Bureau of Education revealed that the Bureau does not have enough monitoring system to the violations that occur in schools and mainly concerned with the fulfilment of the infrastructure of the kindergartens to be child friendly. Based on the findings, recommendations were made to Kotebe Metropolitan University and Addis Ababa Bureau of Education.
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    Denial of Rights, Human Rights Abuses and Violence Against Domestic Workers in Some Selected Areas of Addis Ababa
    (Addis Ababa University, 2007-07) Tesfaye, Selamawit; (PhD), Jawahari
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    Preschool Teachers Perception and Practices about the Psychosocial Needs of Early Childhood
    (Addis Ababa University, 2015-06) Tesfaye, Selamawit; Ero, Debebe (PhD)
    This study aimed at investigating the perceptions and practices preschool teachers have to the psychosocial needs of early childhood, the strategies they apply for supporting the children, and challenges encountered not to give support. The study took on qualitative design and a case study research methodology. Data were collected from multiple sources that included 11 preschool teachers who were purposefully selected from two preschools through in-depth interview, observation, and document review. Then the qualitative data content analysis was conducted. The results indicated that teachers had awareness on the different psychosocial problems of early childhood from their experience, not from the training. But teachers did not know how to help the children in organized way and some of the problems that children have are beyond their capacity to help. The teaching strategies that most teachers raised to give psychosocial support are play, stories ,extra care and extra work, counseling the student and partnership with parents. The challenges for not to give support to early childhood that the teachers said were lack of time, knowledge and motivation. And the result of this research implies the recruitment of other professionals like social workers and special need educators and also the training of early child hood teachers in preschools. The findings of this study implied for social work research on having longitudinal studies on the psycho social support that should be made to early childhood
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    Preschool Teachers' perception and Practices about the Psychosocial Needs of Early Childhood
    (Addis Ababa University, 2015-06) Tesfaye, Selamawit; Ero, Debebe (PhD)
    This study aimed at investigating the perceptions and practices preschool teachers have on the psychosocial needs of early childhood, the strategies they apply for supporting the children, and challenges encountered not to give support. The study took on qualitative design and a case study research methodology. Data were collected from multiple sources that included J J preschool teachers who were purposefully selected Fom two preschools through in-depth interview, Key informants, observation, and document review. Then the qualitative data content analysis was conducted. The results indicated that teachers had awareness on the different psychosocial problems of early childhood Fom their experience, not Fom the training. But teachers did not know how to help the children in organized way and some of the problems that children have are beyond their capacity to help. The teaching strategies that most teachers raised to give psychosocial support are play, stories extra care and extra work, counseling the student and partnership with parents. The challenges for not to give support to early childhood that the teachers said were lack of time, knowledge and motivation. And the result of this research implies the recruitment of other professionals like social workers and special need educators and also the training of early child hood teachers in preschools. The findings of this study implied for social work research on having longitudinal studies on the psycho social support that should be made to early childhood
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    Women’s Participation in Household Decision Making and Its Associated Factors in Ethiopia: Evidence from the 2016 Ethiopia’s Demographic and Health Survey
    (Addis Ababa University, 2021-10) Tesfaye, Selamawit; Gurmu, Eshetu PhD
    Background: In Ethiopia like rest of the world, women have played indispensable role in improvement of household’s well-being. However, women decision making concerning their health care, major household purchase and movement outside of their home also determined by pre-disposing factors among married women not compressively understood, less investigated, and implemented in Ethiopia. Hence, principal aim of this study is to examine the levels and patterns of women’s participation in household decisions and its micro-level socio-cultural and demographic factors in Ethiopia. Methods: The study used data from 2016 Ethiopian Demographic Health Survey (EDHS). It comprised of sample women of reproductive age group from 15-49 years, living in rural and urban areas covering nine states and two city administrations, and have completed women’s participation decision making data during the survey year. Descriptive statistics and maximum likelihood estimation of logistic regression analysis applied to investigate participation of women decision-making process and factors influencing women’s decisions making. The Stata statistical software used to analyze the data. Logistic regression models have been specified for each of decision making, diagnostic has been made for each of the models to test assumptions related to logistic regression models. Results: Descriptive statistics analysis showed that about 70% of sample women participate in all decision type, 82% on their own health care, 78% on major household purchase and 82% on visiting their relatives. The odds of making decision by primary, secondary and higher education among women who participate in their health care, making household purchase, visiting their relatives and all these decisions higher than compared to women having with no education. Compared to women who were in poorest household, those who were rich had higher odds of participation in all decision area. Women’s age gap greater than equal to twenty years and between even and twenty years were significantly influenced women’s participation on decisionmaking of household purchase and visiting their family or relatives respectively. Access to media negatively and significantly influence women’s participation all of decision making and women who lived in rural area positively and significantly influenced women decision making on health care only. Working status of women significantly influenced all of women decision-making areas except women’s mobility. Regions/sub-nationals has also positive and negative contribution in affecting women’s decision making. Conclusion: Considering the above results, women’s participation in household decision making increases by working on women’s centered education program, wealth improvement program such as employment importunities and women’s empowerment intervention in some of the rural part of the region.