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Ecosystemic factors influencing the experience of fear in young children
Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2022.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/91254 Ecosystemic factors influencing the experience of fear in young children Bipath, Keshni francinah.masola@up.ac.za Muthivhi, Azwihangwisi Masola, Francinah UCTD Fear Young children Ecosystemic factors Teachers Violence Education theses SDG-03 Education theses SDG-04 Education theses SDG-10 Education theses SDG-16 Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2022. The purpose of this study was to investigate ecosystemic factors influencing the experience of fear in young children. Through qualitative method, a sample of 12 grade three learners’ drawings, 12 parents, three grade three teachers from low socio-economic status, middle socio-economic status and high socio-economic status participated in the study. In this way, the study aimed to compare and investigate whether a particular setting may determine what influences the experience of fear in young children. I purposefully selected 12 grade three learners’ drawings (four from each school) from which each system of Bronfenbrenner’s bio-ecological theory was illustrated very well and depicted fearful experiences. As such, a multiple case study design was employed to explore and compare what influence fearful experiences among Grade 3 learners from three different socio-economic class. For data collection, I relied on learners’ drawings, narratives, informal conversations, audio recordings, semi-structured interviews, field notes and a research journal. I analysed data through thematic inductive analysis. The results highlighted that negligence, nightmare, domestic violence, bullying, terrifying television programmes, COVID-19, kidnapping and murder are causing fear in young children. The findings suggest that adversities, television content, kidnapping and murder as well as COVID-19 has the negative effects on the well-being of the children causing fears that are not normal for their age group. The persistent exposure to fearful experiences interferes with the ability of the learners to learn effectively in the classroom. Teachers’ lack of competencies in supporting learners to cope with fear add to low participation of learners in the classroom. Therefore, teachers need adequate support and training to deal with learners experiencing fear. The contribution of this study is to provide various strategies which can be employed by teachers and parents to support young children to cope with fearful feelings. Moreover, the findings of this study suggest a need for parents to limiting the amount of domestic violence and terrifying television programmes that young children are exposed to, in the home environment. The insights gained from this study will be shared as recommendations with the schools, institutions of higher learning and the DBE. This will be done to highlight what schools can do to support teachers and parents to assist young children to cope with fear and the kinds of capacity-building programmes that will help teachers, social workers and police officers to become partners in education. UCDP Grand dzm2026 Early Childhood Education PhD Unrestricted SDG-03: Good health and well-being SDG-04: Quality education SDG-10: Reduced inequalities SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions 2023-07-04T07:07:46Z 2023-07-04T07:07:46Z 2023-09 2022 Thesis * S2023 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/91254 DOI: 10.25403/UPresearchdata.22801178.v1 https://doi.org/10.25403/UPresearchdata.22801178.v1 en © 2023 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Fear Young children Ecosystemic factors Teachers Violence Education theses SDG-03 Education theses SDG-04 Education theses SDG-10 Education theses SDG-16 Ecosystemic factors influencing the experience of fear in young children |
| title | Ecosystemic factors influencing the experience of fear in young children |
| title_full | Ecosystemic factors influencing the experience of fear in young children |
| title_fullStr | Ecosystemic factors influencing the experience of fear in young children |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ecosystemic factors influencing the experience of fear in young children |
| title_short | Ecosystemic factors influencing the experience of fear in young children |
| title_sort | ecosystemic factors influencing the experience of fear in young children |
| topic | UCTD Fear Young children Ecosystemic factors Teachers Violence Education theses SDG-03 Education theses SDG-04 Education theses SDG-10 Education theses SDG-16 |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/91254 https://doi.org/10.25403/UPresearchdata.22801178.v1 |