Browsing NTNU Open by Author "Abebe, Tatek"
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Children's experiences and perpectives on public spaces in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Nguyen, Thi My Chau (Master thesis, 2019)This study aims to explore children’s perspectives and experiences on public spaces in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It further questions structural and contextual forces that shape children’s everyday experiences in public ... -
Children's experiences with Child Protection Services: A qualitative synthesis
Wilson, Samita; Hean, Sarah; Abebe, Tatek; Heaslip, Vanessa (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Background Research shows that young adults, previously in contact with Child Protection Services (CPS) often have lower overall wellbeing when compared to their peers in the general population. To redress this balance ... -
Children's Participation in Peace Building Process in Gulu District, Northern Uganda
Aguto, Moses Oketch (Master thesis, 2012)This thesis is concerned with the experiences of children who were formerly abducted and recruited into armed rebellion by the Lord’s resistance Army (LRA) in Northern Uganda. It discusses their experience of participating ... -
Children's perspectives of poverty and livelihood strategies in Sakumono Village, Ghana
Anku, Victor Kofi (Master thesis, 2012)In this study, I explored children’s perspectives and experiences of poverty and the livelihood strategies they tactically employed to fend for themselves in Sakumono Village, Ghana. I applied qualitative research method ... -
Children's Perspectives on Religion: The Case of Christian Children in Tamil Nadu, India
Baby, Marianne (Master thesis, 2012)This thesis is about Christian children's perspectives on religion in Tamil Nadu, India. More specifically the thesis seeks to explore how children view religion and how they seek knowledge about religion in their daily ... -
Contemporary Childhood in Bagamoyo: A Child-focused Study on Perceptions and Experiences of Childhood in Coastal Tanzania
Smørdal, Gro Pernille (Master thesis, 2012)Through international agencies and non-governmental organisations building their work on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, childhood has become increasingly homogenised as an idea. A ‘global model’ ... -
Differentiated Childhoods: Left-behind Children in Rural China
Wang, Linglin (Master thesis, 2013)Rural to urban migration is prominent in China. Since the middle of 1980s, China has been witnessing such a massive internal transfer of population. The migration of labor, particularly surplus rural labor moving to urban ... -
Duties & Responsibilities of Children in Ghana: Perspectives of Children and Adults in Kumasi
Kwarteng, Kwabena Anane (Master thesis, 2012)International children’s rights actors and activists view children and childhood as a special time set aside for school and play without due regard to the duties and responsibilities borne in society. In this way, children ... -
Ethiopian childhoods: a case study of the lives of orphans and working children
Abebe, Tatek (Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2008:42, Doctoral thesis, 2008)This thesis explores two aspects of contemporary childhoods –orphanhood and children’s work – in Ethiopia. By drawing on case studies from Gedeo (rural) and Addis Ababa (urban), I discuss how children and young people ... -
Everyday Life of Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in Albania
Doksani, Anja (Master thesis, 2021)The focus of this master's thesis is children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDDs) in Albania. It is exploratory research about the everyday lives and personal experiences of childhood and disability. ... -
Family Resilience in the Time of COVID-19: A Cultural Probe Study with Children and their Families at Home in Finland
Lopez, Melissa (Master thesis, 2021)The study examines the social impacts of the novel Coronavirus pandemic, COVID-19, on childhood and family life at home in Finland. The study takes on a rights-based, participatory, and relational approach in exploring ... -
Gender discrimination and children's right to education in Nepal: Perspectives of parents and children
Basnet, Lila Dhoaj (Master thesis, 2013)Gender discrimination is considered as problematic issues for promoting equality and attainment of universal rights of children especially, in south Asia. In Nepal, where a patriarchal system of social relations predominates, ... -
Gendered perspectives and experiences of work : a case study of the life worlds of boys and girls in Rakai District, rural Uganda
Nakazibwe, Viola (Master thesis, 2016)Although children’s work has been much researched in Africa, the complex ways in which the intersection of culture and gender shapes the type of work children do is less understood within childhood studies. The main aim ... -
Generationing Poverty: Children’s Perspectives of Childhood Poverty and Wellbeing in Rural Zambia
Phiri, Douglas Tendai (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2018:361, Doctoral thesis, 2018)The focus of the thesis is on children’s perspectives of poverty and wellbeing based on their lived experiences in rural Lundazi district, Eastern province of Zambia. As a policy buzzword, ‘rural child poverty’ seldom ... -
Geographies of Laboring and Learning: Introduction.
Abebe, Tatek; Waters, Johanna (Chapter, 2017)This introductory chapter to the volume “Laboring and Learning” provides an overview of a diverse and fascinating range of contributions made by academics; engaging with some salient themes that inform debates on the area; ... -
Independent Child Migration From Northern Ghana to Techiman Municipality: Perspectives of 'Kayayie' (Female Children Head Poters)
Kwaku, Effa Rexford (Master thesis, 2013)In recent years, the north-south migration of children is on the increase and is gaining popularity in the Ghanaian media especially in Accra and Kumasi. Previous studies on child migration focused mainly on boys as well ... -
Interfaces Between Children's Work and Schooling in Rural Tanzania
Masabo, John Conrad (Master thesis, 2017)This thesis explores various perspectives on children combining work and schooling in Tanzania. The research was conducted in Buhigwe district, Kigoma region in Tanzania. It was informed by the social constructionist ... -
"Just because you look different, doesn´t mean you´re evil" : a study of Muslim girls´ experiences with stigma, 'othering' and minority status in Trondheim, Norway
Berg, Ingrid (Master thesis, 2016)Over the past decades Norway has become a multicultural country with people of various race, cultural and religious backgrounds residing alongside ethnic Norwegians. As this development is still relatively new, tensions ... -
Lost Futures? Educated Youth Precarity and Protests in the Oromia Region, Ethiopia
Abebe, Tatek (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, this article explores the connections between young people's livelihoods, education and visions of the future in Ethiopia. It engages with educated youth's narratives of precarity, ... -
Pakistani children's lived experiences of relationships in the context of child protection services in Norway: An interpretative phenomenological analysis
Wilson, Samita; Hean, Sarah Catherine Patricia Duff; Abebe, Tatek; Heaslip, Vanessa (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This paper examines how children from immigrant background experience and negotiate power relations with family and social workers in the context of child protection services (CPS) in Norway. Using the interpretative ...