Éducation préscolaire en famille: Ce qui reste de la tradition en ville expérience à Cotonou, Bénin
(2007) Louvain médical — Vol. 126, n° 8, p. 317-324 (2007)
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- Objective: the objective of this survey was to value what of the traditional education remained currently in practices of child's education in family in our cities. Method: it's a prospective and descriptive survey, achieved in 151 families of children aged of 0 at 6 years, by a method of sampling reasoned. Results: 14 to 17% of parents educate exclusively their children in preschool age in French or maternal language, and 68,2% use French and maternal language. Games and the surrounding objects keep the attention of children, respectively in 38,4% and 36,4%. Television has been signalled in 14,6%. The traditional practice of tales at the evening takes place in 53,6% of families. 87,4% of parents confide some domestic tasks to their own children in preschool age. 37,7% have to their service a domestic child; more of the third of this last category make work as well their own children that the domestic children. Sanctions apply on children in 85,4%, with 47,3% of bodily sanctions and 52,7% of various deprivations. 41,7% of parents punish for disobedience and 1,3% for bad school output. 84,5% of parents that use sanction estimate that it is bearer of positive educational effect. There is interdependence between, on the one hand, the motive of sanction, on the other hand, the type of sanction, and the declared educational effect. 86,1% of children ask questions judged embarrassing to their parents, of which 36,9% get a satisfactory answer. Discussion-conclusion: education in Africa is a "work of all the community and no the one of parents"; what explains the care and the education of children in part by the grandparents. Sanctions have been declared educational strategies. Nevertheless, the parents made the part of behaviors and conducts raising the child's will and those none mastered by his determination. Narration of tales in the evening is in obsolescence. Questions asked by children and answers made by parents testify the evolution of a good enough communication; children are better listened by parents. The well educated individual depends of the consequence of that that his society wants to make it. The role of parents and the one of teachers constitutes a continuum, from where the interest of a collaboration and/or a coordination.
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Fiossi-Kpadonou, E., Kpadonou, Gt., Chidikofan, V., Ayivi, B., & Charlier, D. (2007). Éducation préscolaire en famille: Ce qui reste de la tradition en ville expérience à Cotonou, Bénin. Louvain médical, 126(8), 317-324. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/85597 (Original work published 2007)