BROODING OVER AFRICAN TRADITIONAL CHILD-CARE IN ZIMBABWE: FROM PRENATAL TO POSTNATAL
Journal Title: Educational Research International - Year 2017, Vol 6, Issue 2
Abstract
This paper examined traditional African child rearing styles from prenatal to postnatal focusing on the impact this has on the psychosocial developments of a child’s academic performance. In most African countries, during prenatal and postnatal periods, there are many rituals that are observed by the parents, especially the expectant mother. This has a bearing on the psychological and later cognitive development of the child. As a result, there is a paradigm shift taking place from a strictly traditional to a more modern oriented way of rearing children due to the influence of education, media and technology. The majority of families in Zimbabwe now find themselves somewhere along a continuum between the African and Western child rearing styles. In this study, the descriptive survey design was used with questionnaires and interviews as data collection instruments. Findings from this research revealed that, some families want independent, democratic and sometimes laissez-faire ways of raising children while some African cultures prefer submissive children raised under an authoritarian style. Knowledge of African child rearing practices is therefore of paramount importance since it makes teachers of African children sensitive to and aware of some values that have shaped them so as to enhance effective teaching and learning.
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Kudzai Chinyoka, Emily Ganga
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