‘Their status will be affected by that child’: How masculinity influences father involvement in the education of learners with intellectual disabilities
| Autor: | Amani Karisa, Judith McKenzie, Tania De Villiers |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Sociology of scientific knowledge media_common.quotation_subject education Mothers Context (language use) Special education Developmental psychology Fathers 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Intellectual Disability 030225 pediatrics Perception Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Child Father-Child Relations media_common Masculinity 05 social sciences Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Focus group Excuse Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Female Construct (philosophy) Psychology 050104 developmental & child psychology |
| Zdroj: | Child: Care, Health and Development. 47:517-524 |
| ISSN: | 1365-2214 0305-1862 |
| Popis: | BACKGROUND Parents play a critical role in the formal education of their children. However, a limited body of scientific knowledge exists on fathers' involvement in the formal education of their children with disabilities, particularly in Global South settings. This study sought to understand how father involvement is constructed in the formal education of learners with intellectual disabilities in an African context. METHODS The study uses data from a broad qualitative case study of one special school in Kenya. Data were collected from eight fathers, six mothers, nine teachers and six children with disabilities using individual interviews, key informant interviews and focus group discussions. A document review was also conducted. The data were analysed thematically. RESULTS Two themes emerging from the data are presented, named using selected quotes from the participants thus: 'He's a monster, you're the one who gave birth to him' and 'The excuse that he has work to do'. Father involvement in the education of learners with intellectual disabilities is influenced by the need of the fathers to protect their identities as men in a society whose cultural norms and values associates manliness with strength and perfection, and disability with weakness and imperfection. Father involvement is also impacted by the teachers' perceptions of the fathers' masculinity. Additionally, father involvement is influenced by the ways fathers cope with the threats to their masculinity. CONCLUSION Perceptions of masculinity and disability intersect to construct father involvement in the formal education of learners with intellectual disabilities in this African context. |
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