A pedagogic complexus on the knowledge and impact of economic recession on secondary school students

Okam, Chinyere Lilian

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“…The need to tackle the problems visible in the storyline spurred their interest on how to communicate as well as to perform the action that engendered their results. What is indisputable is the fact that the methodological flexibility (Okam 2019a) and creative methodology of children's theatre was resourceful for the formulation and exercise of their agency which is implemented through participation. Drama is what supports the participants' free will and empowers them to share or control their activities.…”

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Agency and participation as determinants of social capital in Gombe Children’s Theatre Project

Okam

Idebe

2020

Comprehensive Child Studies

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Methodological flexibility and substantive creativity are important internal dynamics that ensure the development of social capital in children's projects. They help to support cultural and sensory spaces to ensure that children participate equitably in projects. This paper aims to foreground how agency and participation, which ostensibly nurture social capital, were handled through purposeful creativity. It uses Gombe Children's Theatre Project (GCTP) as a case study. Its goal is to explore the realization of children's social capital by using Local Human Development (LHD) and Child's Rights Convention (Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989) as theoretical approaches to evaluating the project. Among other findings, the study reveals that agency and participation are determinants of social capital. The success is due to the effective conditions that provided such response to collective consolidation. In a dysfunctional social system, it is difficult to knit the confidence of different stakeholders to produce a noticeable positive outcome. However, the Children's Theatre Project has provided a participatory framework giving the stakeholders full control. The issue in question is of value for all the project participants, therefore, it is necessary to provide a freer space where the students could address the challenges typical for their schools. This lacuna is the result of limited time available to the university and school students alike.

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Agency and participation as determinants of social capital in Gombe Children’s Theatre Project

Okam

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2020

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Evicted from Home, Unaccommodated in the Street: The Castigatory Experience of Skolombo Boys and Lakasera Girls of Calabar in the Light of UNCRC

Ajiboye

2024

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC; for every child, every right), adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1989 and fully operationalised in 1990, firmly protects the rights of every child under the age of 18 years anywhere on the planet. The UNCRC clearly states that every child has the right to know and be cared for by his or her parents. An international treaty signed by 196 countries, bar the United States, since adoption is the most broadly endorsed children’s rights treaty in history and has helped transform children’s lives around the world. But despite provisions in favour of children’s rights well-articulated in the treaty, poignantly, not every child gets to enjoy the rights stated therein. In Nigeria, so many children are cut short of these rights, even though the nation is an avid signatory to the UNCRC treaty. As an analytical context, a number of teenagers (male and female) numbering more than 1000 living in the major streets of Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria, conspicuously referred to as Skolombo boys and Lakasera girls of Calabar, are not only rejected, abandoned and sent away by their parents, but are also discriminated against by the entire city on account of false suspicions of wizardry and witchcraft, a modish form of child rights violations and a clear recalcitrant to the UNCRC treaty. It is startling that limited studies have addressed this problem that most fundamentally affects these children. Relying considerably on both primary and secondary data, this article examines the plights of these children, who are left to fend for themselves within a nation that signed on the dotted lines for the child’s right to protection and concurrently allowed them to be treated with ultra-condemnation. The article concludes that without concerted efforts geared to address child rights violations in the form of persistent rejection and discrimination, the cruel experience will eventually force them to strike and become more dangerous than society can handle.

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A pedagogic complexus on the knowledge and impact of economic recession on secondary school students

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Agency and participation as determinants of social capital in Gombe Children’s Theatre Project

Agency and participation as determinants of social capital in Gombe Children’s Theatre Project

Evicted from Home, Unaccommodated in the Street: The Castigatory Experience of Skolombo Boys and Lakasera Girls of Calabar in the Light of UNCRC

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