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dc.contributor.authorJirata, Tadesse Jaletanb_NO
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-19T14:37:35Z
dc.date.available2014-12-19T14:37:35Z
dc.date.created2013-07-30nb_NO
dc.date.issued2013nb_NO
dc.identifier638430nb_NO
dc.identifier.isbn978-82-471-4452-7 (printed ver.)nb_NO
dc.identifier.isbn978-82-471-4453-4 (electronic ver.)nb_NO
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/269081
dc.description.abstractThis thesis, titled Children and Oral Tradition among the Guji-Oromo in Southern Ethiopia, explores the oral play culture and everyday life of children in a rural context in Ethiopia. With its focus on Guji people in southern Ethiopia, it presents how children (girls and boys in the age range of 7-14 years) participate in performance; interpretation and transmission of oral tradition and through this process learn about their social world. The thesis is part of the research and capacity building project known as Children, Young People and Local Knowledge in Ethiopia and Zambia. Data were obtained through one year of fieldwork that involved ethnographic methods such as participant observation, ethnographic interviews, indepth- interviews and focus group discussions. The thesis is based on the perspectives of the interdisciplinary social study of childhood and social construction of oral tradition, and the findings were presented through six articles, four of which have been published and two accepted for publication as articles in journals and a chapter in a book. Through a synthesis of the findings from each article, the thesis presents four central results. Frist it is seen that children play active roles in the practices of oral tradition. They produce, interpret and transmit oral tradition and through such practices they play, compete and share knowledge with each other as well as with adults. Second, it was seen that the everyday life of rural children ( which refers to children among the Guji people) encompasses diverse places of children`s social interaction (play interaction) –cattle herding fields, home and school, the dynamic social positions and practices of children and multigenerational interactions of children-children interacting with each other and with adults. Third, the thesis demonstrates oral tradition provides children with contexts through which they can enhance their formal and informal learning. Fourth, it is argued that in order to understand children across these dynamic social contexts, the more effective research approach is that of reflexive ethnography. Based on these findings, the thesis concludes that oral tradition is the means through which children participate in the process of knowledge production and transmission and that children link oral tradition to their everyday life and make sense of their social world through it.nb_NO
dc.languageengnb_NO
dc.publisherNorges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Fakultet for samfunnsvitenskap og teknologiledelse, Norsk senter for barneforskningnb_NO
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDoktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2013:171nb_NO
dc.relation.haspartJirata, Tadesse Jaleta. Changes in Position Cause Changes in Relation. Childhoods Today. (ISSN 1753-0849). 5(1), 2011.nb_NO
dc.relation.haspartJirata, Tadesse Jaleta; Kjørholt, Anne Trine. The Place of Children among the Guji People in Southern Ethiopia. Children's Geographies. (ISSN 1473-3285), 2013.nb_NO
dc.relation.haspartJirata, Tadesse Jaleta; Simonsen, Jan Ketil. The roles of Oromo-speaking children in storytelling tradition in Ethiopia. Research in African Literatures. (ISSN 0034-5210), 2013.nb_NO
dc.relation.haspartJirata, Tadesse Jaleta. Children as Interpreters of Culture. Journal of Folklore Research. (ISSN 0737-7037). 48(3): 269-292, 2011.nb_NO
dc.relation.haspartJirata, Tadesse Jaleta. LEARNING THROUGH PLAY. Africa. (ISSN 0001-9720). 82(2): 272-286, 2012. <a href='http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0001972012000058'>10.1017/S0001972012000058</a>.nb_NO
dc.relation.haspartJaleta, Tadesse; Benti, Dessalegn. Storytelling, Local Knowledge, and Formal Education: Bridging the Gap betweenEveryday Life and School. Childhood and LocalKnowledge in Ethiopia: Rights, Livelihoods and Generations: 213-234, 2013.nb_NO
dc.titleChildren and Oral Tradition Among the Guji-Oromo in Southern Ethiopianb_NO
dc.typeDoctoral thesisnb_NO
dc.contributor.departmentNorges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Fakultet for samfunnsvitenskap og teknologiledelse, Norsk senter for barneforskningnb_NO
dc.description.degreePhD i tverrfaglig barneforskningnb_NO
dc.description.degreePhD in Interdisciplinary Child Researchen_GB


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