Working Paper

ACHA Working Paper 9

Education and Work: Children’s Lives in Rural Sub‑Saharan Africa

Published on 19 April 2021

This paper proposes a dynamic conceptual framework – the edu-workscape – for understanding how rural children in sub-Saharan Africa navigate three key gendered social arenas: the household, school and workplaces.

Focusing on school, in particular, the paper highlights the violence, harm and labour that occur there, and argues that learning, work and harm co-exist across all three institutional domains, and in context, and should therefore be considered holistically.

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Dunne, M.; Humphreys, S. and Szyp, C. (2021) Education and Work: Children’s Lives in Rural Sub‑Saharan Africa, ACHA Working Paper 9, Brighton: Action on Children’s Harmful Work in African Agriculture, IDS, DOI: 10.19088/ACHA.2021.004

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published by
Institute of Development Studies
doi
10.19088/ACHA.2021.004
isbn
978-1-78118-755-5
language
English

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