Parenthood and Social Reproduction

Fostering and Occupational Roles in West Africa

Esther N Goody author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:17th Sep '07

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In this book Dr Goody provides an account of the rich variety of institutions, such as fostering, apprenticeship and wardship, which have developed in West Africa.

In this book Dr Goody provides an account of the rich variety of institutions, such as fostering, apprenticeship and wardship, which have developed in West Africa either in absence of, or alongside, formal schools, to prepare children for the wide range of economic and political roles now available to them in adult society.Over the last twenty years, Esther Goody has made extensive studies of traditional and contemporary patterns of education and child-rearing in West Africa. In this book she provides an account of the rich variety of institutions, such as fostering, apprenticeship and wardship, which have developed in West Africa either in absence of, or alongside, formal schools, to prepare children for the wide range of economic and political roles now available to them in adult society. Drawing on her work in West Africa and with West Africans in London, Dr Goody shows that among many groups it is common practice to send children to grow up away from home. As a cross-cultural study of a central kinship institution - parenthood - and of processes of change in adult role allocation, the book is of interest to social anthropologists, sociologists, educationalists and social psychologists.

ISBN: 9780521040174

Dimensions: 229mm x 153mm x 21mm

Weight: 556g

368 pages