Sociocultural Dimensions of Children’s Physical Activity in Contemporary Pastoralist Maasai Society
| Autor: | Tetsuhiro Kidokoro, Xiaojie Tian, Francis M. Mwangi |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Rural Population Activities of daily living Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Pastoralism education Maasai physical activity pastoralist Maasai children Article Developmental psychology Sex Factors Ethnography Humans Learning Sociocultural evolution Child Exercise subsistence work outside school activities Schools Socialization Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Social engagement Natural resource language.human_language gender differences language Medicine Female Psychology sociocultural roles |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Volume 18 Issue 16 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 18, Iss 8337, p 8337 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 1660-4601 1661-7827 |
| Popis: | Children’s physical activity (CPA) in low- and middle-income regions has received increasing attention, but research is still very limited. This study explores the CPA in contemporary pastoralist Maasai society in rural Kenya by considering its sociocultural dimensions. The physical activity of 25 children (15 girls and 10 boys) was documented with mixed methods, including an epidemiological assessment of the CPA and semi-structured interviews with the targeted children regarding their daily activities. These methods were integrated with the ethnographic data on children’s socialization in the same area. Results showed a very high level of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) of these children with significant gender differences especially outside school. Children reported their continued social participation in local gender–age labor divisions outside of school. As their activities outside school strongly contributed to their empirical learning of local knowledge and skills, a high MVPA plays an active role in enhancing the children’s ability to access and manage livestock and different natural resources. Findings from this study first show that the CPA is not merely physical, but also has significant sociocultural meanings in the process of in situ learning of local wisdom. We call more attention to children’s social roles in future investigations of CPA among less examined populations. |
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