The everyday activities of Muslim-Karayu school Adolescents: a Sociocultural developmental survey
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2007-06
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Addis Ababa Universty
Abstract
The everyday activities of Muslim-Karayu school adolescents were studied. Spot
observations were conducted to observe school adolescents' cultural everyday activities
in different contexts (home, workplace, with peers, with siblings, etc.) and at different
times of the day (in the morning, at noon, in the afternoon, and at evening). The
adolescents, their same sex parents and sampled teachers were interviewed. The everyday
activities of Muslim-Karayu school adolescents were predicted to be the same as
unschooled Muslim-Karayu adolescents' everyday activities and, their activity orientation
value with their same sex parents' activity orientation value respectively. Compared to the
unschooled ones, school adolescent boys' everyday activities were significantly improved
to take roles assigned for girls. But, from among school adolescent girls, no one took
any role assigned for boys though they preferred changing to preserving gender specific
everyday activities. It was concluded that school significantly influence Karayu school
adolescent boys to take roles assigned for girls. It also influenced activity orientation
value of both sampled school adolescent boys and girls. On the contrary, the everyday
activities in general and gender specific everyday activities in particular influence school
enrolment and retention.
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Muslim-Karayu