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„CASA DEL CAMINO“ / ”The House of the Road“ MOTTO „ Para que los ninos no vayan a la calle“ / „ So that children would not become street children“ Just after graduating I decided to learn about society from a more practical perspective by actually living and contributing to a culture and society which is quiet different from Lithuanian. The journey started with looking some NGO‘s who would participate in some international projects and could grant a safe „ landing for several months“ in one NGO in Latin America. Getting to know South American culture has been a personal dream and ambition for several years, so the process of searching for the right opportunity lasted more than a year. Being open for any South American country resulted in a positive decision to participate in a project „LA CASA DEL CAMINO“ being a volunteer for half of the year 2007. „LA CASA DEL CAMINO“ is a kinedragten created in order to provide children coming from disadvantaged social zones and problemic social circumstances with proper living conditions and pre - school education. This agency resulted to be participating in a global network of NGO‘s which were receiving volunteers from all over the globe to help and learn the culture – EVS (European Voluntary Service) together with ICYE (International Cultural Youth Exchange).
MISSION & HISTORY In the 90 ties a group of professionals from different areas started an initiative on social responsibility to work for wellbeing and recuperation of people who live in the streets of Medellin. As a product of diagnostics, investigation and analysis were identified encouraged the task that it could serve as a phenomena of a great help for the society. That is how the proposal of Children‘s house / Kindergarden appeared as a mean to deal with social and familial marginalization and also as a prevention so that the children would not become street - children. Vision To form boys and girls with integral excellency who would start off a new Citizen Culture in the city. Objectives To qualitatively respond to the needs of boys and girs of age groups between 1 to 5 years who originate from families depriving economic resourses and usually are children of single – mothers who laborally have to spend their workinghours with their children in the street (beggers, retail service assistants in the streets and etc.) or leave the children in the house without proper care and attention.
TYPES OF SERVICES PROVIDED Talking about services provided we should mention not only those indicated and directted to the main recipients: street children. There is much more interaction happening through this organization on a broder level, that is why I chose to indicated the services as being from two main groups: internal (directly directed to a kid or his family) and extrenal (inter – institutional, organizational, inter – „strata“ communication). Internal types of services Internal services would have to do with direct care and attention to children : nutrition, education, proper rest, socialization skills... • Attention to the integral childhood (1-5 years) It is a non- profit institution of non-formal education which performs accomaniment in the process of formation which contributes to the development of the skills for living, introjection of norms and values (socialization) framed in an environment of commitment and affection and adequate stimulation. • Graduated (of age 5-12 years ) Children who have started their schools in public institutions (5 to 12 years old) are provided with additional time with accompaniment in performing the homework, reinforcement in the fields where needed. There are also being generated diverse alternatives of how to use their free time (organizing artistic workshops, sports, crafts, Hapkido). • Training programme for the family There are also programmes performed for formation and accompaniment of the families of the children having an aim to improve the processes of relationships, affectivity and responsability among the families internally and externally ( towards society). External services and relations • Interaction and education with school students from “well- off“ of families • Interaction and internships with university studens • Family days and feast (Christmas, Flower festivals „Feria de las flores“ and etc.) • Plan „ PADRINO“ interacting and colaborating with „Gottfathers“ who choose to support the children • PUBLIC RELATIONS and connections with governmental institutions • Accepting Voluntary help from people who are eager to help • Small „ second hand“ cloth store ( Humana type) • Team meetings/ team buildings and motivational seminars The agency it is focused on is a member of NGO‘s which participate in receiving volunteers for internships of EVS (EUROPEAN VOLUNTARY SERVICE). That is why speaking on the mission and types of services provided we should enhance our view to more global level: this „ small“ organization is taking part in a global network socializing not only kids, but also people who come to be a part of the project for several months or a year. This case serves as an example illustrating the so called combination between local - global perspectives in contemporary world joining the „think globally, act locally“ philosophy (Giddens, 2005).
TYPES OF SERVICES PROVIDED Talking about services provided we should mention not only those indicated and directted to the main recipients: street children. There is much more interaction happening through this organization on a broder level, that is why I chose to indicated the services as being from two main groups: internal (directly directed to a kid or his family) and extrenal (inter – institutional, organizational, inter – „strata“ communication). Internal types of services Internal services would have to do with direct care and attention to children : nutrition, education, proper rest, socialization skills... • Attention to the integral childhood (1-5 years) It is a non- profit institution of non-formal education which performs accomaniment in the process of formation which contributes to the development of the skills for living, introjection of norms and values (socialization) framed in an environment of commitment and affection and adequate stimulation. • Graduated (of age 5-12 years ) Children who have started their schools in public institutions (5 to 12 years old) are provided with additional time with accompaniment in performing the homework, reinforcement in the fields where needed. There are also being generated diverse alternatives of how to use their free time (organizing artistic workshops, sports, crafts, Hapkido). • Training programme for the family There are also programmes performed for formation and accompaniment of the families of the children having an aim to improve the processes of relationships, affectivity and responsability among the families internally and externally ( towards society).
External services and relations • Interaction and education with school students from “well- off“ of families • Interaction and internships with university studens • Family days and feast (Christmas, Flower festivals „Feria de las flores“ and etc.) • Plan „ PADRINO“ interacting and colaborating with „Gottfathers“ who choose to support the children • PUBLIC RELATIONS and connections with governmental institutions • Accepting Voluntary help from people who are eager to help • Small „ second hand“ cloth store ( Humana type) • Team meetings/ team buildings and motivational seminars The agency it is focused on is a member of NGO‘s which participate in receiving volunteers for internships of EVS (EUROPEAN VOLUNTARY SERVICE). That is why speaking on the mission and types of services provided we should enhance our view to more global level: this „ small“ organization is taking part in a global network socializing not only kids, but also people who come to be a part of the project for several months or a year. This case serves as an example illustrating the so called combination between local - global perspectives in contemporary world joining the „think globally, act locally“ philosophy (Giddens, 2005).
THE WAY SERVICES ARE EVALUATED & RESEARCH THAT IS CARRIED OUT ABOUT THE SERVICES There was not much information available for me on how the services were evaluated, but after being for a half year there one could witnessed that: Physical and psychological health of children was evaluated on a regular basis by doctors ( the head of the kindergaden is a medic herself) and psycologist, who constantly was interacting to children and having special sessions with the kids from „special situations“. • Social skills of children and learned programmes were performed on every occasion which was appropiate: Christmas, Festival of flowers, graduation etc. On these ocasions children would perform to their parents and visitors. • I also noticed that there were university studens spending few hours a week (mostly from social work, psychology, kinezitherapy) and contributing to kids from their field of knowledge. • This agenbcy also kept in touch with media, so there were often people coming to film and repersent this initiative via TV, I also have found the story in one Colombian famous magazine, which spoke of the founding story, children, provided services.
HOW AGENCY IS FUNDED The story of the way the organization was funded has to do much with personal inputs of the director of this Kindergarten and her husband. Being broght up in a obviously more advantaged social circumstances than many of other people who live in Medellin (Colombia), having good career opportunities (the director is a doctor and her husband – plastic cirurgian) they decided to provide many children with better life opportunities. That is how the project of looking for a proper house in the center (poorest area in the city ) started with their private contribution. I did not get to know much about other funds which were supporting the place, but many of the incomes which were used to meet the proper needs of children were: • Plan „Padrino“ – „Gotfather“ Monthly financial help guarantees for a child integral attention which a child requires for his/her growth, development and capacity to boost and promote his/ her project of life. Every child was supported by private funding of one „Gotfather“- a person or family who contributes monthly amount of money so the child is provided with proper nutrition, education, clothing, presents for their birthdays.
• Donations Individuals or institutions are encouraged to donate financially or in other material form (food, bring used but in a good conditions cothes, toys, household items, books, etc.). People were also invited to come to the place and contribute in covering the necesities of the beneficiaries. • Bono If someone wants to give a special attention to a beloved person on a special ocasion /date ( birthday, aniversary, condolence..) is able to make it trough card where there is identified the work which was performed with received support on the bahalf of the person‘s name.
• Calendars For the social commitment personally or with agency people are encouraged to give as a present Calendars of the Kindergarden with the programme for the following year as a form of material sharing and social responsibility.
• Voluntary People were invited to come and give their personal time, knowledge and dedication with love to reach the objectives of the Corporation. Every weekdays there were coming women who could contribute from the field of their knowledge. For example being pensioneers they contributed on voluntary basis teaching, working extra hours in the cloth store, helping out to sort food items, preapare the space for special events and etc.
„CASA DEL CAMINO“ AND SOCIOLOGY (My personal considerations) To understand the mission and activities of the agency in a broader sense I chose trese theorethical approaches which could help to illustrate better the social reality the agency is funded in. Conflict theory Conflict in R. Dahrendorf‘s (Leonavičius V., 2005) theory stems from social stratifications which is based on power p.ositions in the structure. Structural roots existing in the system may be explained by social roles which are associated with expectations of domination and subordination towards the others. Power always embraces subordination and superordination. People who are in power positions are expected to control those who are situated in lower power positions. Any community or society could be considered as imperatively coordinated asociation if in this unit exists a clearly diferentiated distribution of power. Colombian society seems to be quite stratified social system. According to what power positions one holds in the system, with associated social role, one is placed into six obvious „official“ stratas. Clearly differentiated living zones also describe to which social strata a person comes from. Strata six – would be poeple who have obviously the best living conditions. Strata 0 -1 – the poorest one‘s. „La Casa del Camino“ is situated in the very centre of Medellin. The centre, contrary from most European countries, in many South American countries is considered to be one of the poorest areas in the city. Where in the context of obviously existing social stratification and conflicts people are using the „sharing strategy“ – the well off families are sharing and being open to colaborate with the poor ones – constructing consensus, whithout which, acording to Dahrendorf, no society can survive.
Structural functionalism To provide with clearer vision of the mission of this agency in existing Colombian social system it is useful to use the theory created by Robert Merton (Leonavičius V., 2005) on structural functionalism. Robert Merton indicated four main types of adaptation according to the way people adjust themselves seeking / refusing to seek cultural aims by institutional/ non- institutional means/patterns. These types of adaptation are: conformity (when people act seeking cultually set objectives using legitime institutional means), inovation (when people seek the culturally set objectives in non- leagal ways) , ritualism ( when indivuiduals act in ritual ways not seeking cultural objectives), retreatism ( when people refuse to seek culturally set objectives, nor do it in institutionalized ways), rebellion (when people search for revoliutionary ways to adapt themselves in the culture). Many of the families which children come from cannot provide the young generation with proper socialization, nutrition, education skills. In this case the activities of the agency „ Casa del Camino“ are to prevent children from anomic way of living (when the norms are not being kept and destructive behavior is being created) and to teach an adaptation to the social system which was identified by R.Merton as conformity (in the project called as citizen culture) and so avoid marginalization which is common for the way of retreatism (which is common for beggars f.ex).
Dramaturgical theory Shortly speaking of E. Goffman‘s theory on social dramaturgy,( Leonavičius V., 2005)it is important to mention two ways of stigmas people would get being in a position of social marginalization: discredited and discreditable stigmas. Discredited stigma emerges when the diference between virtual and real identity of a person is very visible to the public (this stigma could appear f.e. when kids are not provided with special needs of proper socialization, dress, lack of physical health and hygiene and etc.). In case of discreditable stigma public does not know about the difference between virtual and real identities of a person. We could assume that the children from poor families and with special abuse cases while being socialized, received tretiments of psycologist, educated and provided with important needs that could possibly help them to take off so called „etiquettes“/ stigmas which in other case they could cary for all the rest of their lives.
Symbolic Interactionism As I was explained by director in one convesation that she and her husband understood that God wanted them to help to many children. That is how the idea of kidergarten was put into action. This issue is an exaple which could be interpreted by Symbolic Interactionism by H. Blumer (Leonavičius V., 2005, Blumer H., 1998). Symlolic Interactionism as a micro social theory emphasizes a reflective individuals who form symbolic actions. It says that a meaning of objects (material, social, abstract) is constructed in a process of social interaction, so as long as individuals mutually agree on the meanings, associated with them (objects). In this particular sense we could name children as a meaningful social object to both of the members of the family, in this sense not having their own makes them interpret the situation in a way they change the meaning of their mission as parents: interpreting that they can help other children providing them with better living opportunities. This reflective process makes a difference in forming their future actions: establishing an agency for many other children. Symbolic Interactionism would state that meaning again plays a greatest role and as long as it is kept alive in the social interactions, it stays important in peoples lives. REFERENCES Leonavičius V., Norkus Z., Tereskinas A.2005, SOCIOLOGIJOS TEORIJOS, Vytauto Didžiojo Universitetas, Kaunas Giddens A.,. 2005. SOCIOLOGY. Poligrafija ir informatika. Blumer H., 1998 (2) Simbolinio interakcionizmo metodologinės nuostatos. Sociologija. Mintis ir veiksmas. Werbsite of „Casa del Camino“ http://www.comodonar.com/ Facebook group of „Casa del Camino“ http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=75046061416&ref=mf
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„CASA DEL CAMINO“ / ”The House of the Road“
ReplyDeleteMOTTO „ Para que los ninos no vayan a la calle“ / „ So that children would not become street children“
Just after graduating I decided to learn about society from a more practical perspective by actually living and contributing to a culture and society which is quiet different from Lithuanian. The journey started with looking some NGO‘s who would participate in some international projects and could grant a safe „ landing for several months“ in one NGO in Latin America. Getting to know South American culture has been a personal dream and ambition for several years, so the process of searching for the right opportunity lasted more than a year. Being open for any South American country resulted in a positive decision to participate in a project „LA CASA DEL CAMINO“ being a volunteer for half of the year 2007.
„LA CASA DEL CAMINO“ is a kinedragten created in order to provide children coming from disadvantaged social zones and problemic social circumstances with proper living conditions and pre - school education. This agency resulted to be participating in a global network of NGO‘s which were receiving volunteers from all over the globe to help and learn the culture – EVS (European Voluntary Service) together with ICYE (International Cultural Youth Exchange).
MISSION & HISTORY
ReplyDeleteIn the 90 ties a group of professionals from different areas started an initiative on social responsibility to work for wellbeing and recuperation of people who live in the streets of Medellin. As a product of diagnostics, investigation and analysis were identified encouraged the task that it could serve as a phenomena of a great help for the society.
That is how the proposal of Children‘s house / Kindergarden appeared as a mean to deal with social and familial marginalization and also as a prevention so that the children would not become street - children.
Vision
To form boys and girls with integral excellency who would start off a new Citizen Culture in the city.
Objectives
To qualitatively respond to the needs of boys and girs of age groups between 1 to 5 years who originate from families depriving economic resourses and usually are children of single – mothers who laborally have to spend their workinghours with their children in the street (beggers, retail service assistants in the streets and etc.) or leave the children in the house without proper care and attention.
TYPES OF SERVICES PROVIDED
ReplyDeleteTalking about services provided we should mention not only those indicated and directted to the main recipients: street children. There is much more interaction happening through this organization on a broder level, that is why I chose to indicated the services as being from two main groups: internal (directly directed to a kid or his family) and extrenal (inter – institutional, organizational, inter – „strata“ communication).
Internal types of services
Internal services would have to do with direct care and attention to children : nutrition, education, proper rest, socialization skills...
• Attention to the integral childhood (1-5 years)
It is a non- profit institution of non-formal education which performs accomaniment in the process of formation which contributes to the development of the skills for living, introjection of norms and values (socialization) framed in an environment of commitment and affection and adequate stimulation.
• Graduated (of age 5-12 years )
Children who have started their schools in public institutions (5 to 12 years old) are provided with additional time with accompaniment in performing the homework, reinforcement in the fields where needed. There are also being generated diverse alternatives of how to use their free time (organizing artistic workshops, sports, crafts, Hapkido).
• Training programme for the family
There are also programmes performed for formation and accompaniment of the families of the children having an aim to improve the processes of relationships, affectivity and responsability among the families internally and externally ( towards society).
External services and relations
• Interaction and education with school students from “well- off“ of families
• Interaction and internships with university studens
• Family days and feast (Christmas, Flower festivals „Feria de las flores“ and etc.)
• Plan „ PADRINO“ interacting and colaborating with „Gottfathers“ who choose to support the children
• PUBLIC RELATIONS and connections with governmental institutions
• Accepting Voluntary help from people who are eager to help
• Small „ second hand“ cloth store ( Humana type)
• Team meetings/ team buildings and motivational seminars
The agency it is focused on is a member of NGO‘s which participate in receiving volunteers for internships of EVS (EUROPEAN VOLUNTARY SERVICE). That is why speaking on the mission and types of services provided we should enhance our view to more global level: this „ small“ organization is taking part in a global network socializing not only kids, but also people who come to be a part of the project for several months or a year. This case serves as an example illustrating the so called combination between local - global perspectives in contemporary world joining the „think globally, act locally“ philosophy (Giddens, 2005).
TYPES OF SERVICES PROVIDED
ReplyDeleteTalking about services provided we should mention not only those indicated and directted to the main recipients: street children. There is much more interaction happening through this organization on a broder level, that is why I chose to indicated the services as being from two main groups: internal (directly directed to a kid or his family) and extrenal (inter – institutional, organizational, inter – „strata“ communication).
Internal types of services
Internal services would have to do with direct care and attention to children : nutrition, education, proper rest, socialization skills...
• Attention to the integral childhood (1-5 years)
It is a non- profit institution of non-formal education which performs accomaniment in the process of formation which contributes to the development of the skills for living, introjection of norms and values (socialization) framed in an environment of commitment and affection and adequate stimulation.
• Graduated (of age 5-12 years )
Children who have started their schools in public institutions (5 to 12 years old) are provided with additional time with accompaniment in performing the homework, reinforcement in the fields where needed. There are also being generated diverse alternatives of how to use their free time (organizing artistic workshops, sports, crafts, Hapkido).
• Training programme for the family
There are also programmes performed for formation and accompaniment of the families of the children having an aim to improve the processes of relationships, affectivity and responsability among the families internally and externally ( towards society).
External services and relations
ReplyDelete• Interaction and education with school students from “well- off“ of families
• Interaction and internships with university studens
• Family days and feast (Christmas, Flower festivals „Feria de las flores“ and etc.)
• Plan „ PADRINO“ interacting and colaborating with „Gottfathers“ who choose to support the children
• PUBLIC RELATIONS and connections with governmental institutions
• Accepting Voluntary help from people who are eager to help
• Small „ second hand“ cloth store ( Humana type)
• Team meetings/ team buildings and motivational seminars
The agency it is focused on is a member of NGO‘s which participate in receiving volunteers for internships of EVS (EUROPEAN VOLUNTARY SERVICE). That is why speaking on the mission and types of services provided we should enhance our view to more global level: this „ small“ organization is taking part in a global network socializing not only kids, but also people who come to be a part of the project for several months or a year. This case serves as an example illustrating the so called combination between local - global perspectives in contemporary world joining the „think globally, act locally“ philosophy (Giddens, 2005).
THE WAY SERVICES ARE EVALUATED & RESEARCH THAT IS CARRIED OUT ABOUT THE SERVICES
ReplyDeleteThere was not much information available for me on how the services were evaluated, but after being for a half year there one could witnessed that:
Physical and psychological health of children was evaluated on a regular basis by doctors ( the head of the kindergaden is a medic herself) and psycologist, who constantly was interacting to children and having special sessions with the kids from „special situations“.
• Social skills of children and learned programmes were performed on every occasion which was appropiate: Christmas, Festival of flowers, graduation etc. On these ocasions children would perform to their parents and visitors.
• I also noticed that there were university studens spending few hours a week (mostly from social work, psychology, kinezitherapy) and contributing to kids from their field of knowledge.
• This agenbcy also kept in touch with media, so there were often people coming to film and repersent this initiative via TV, I also have found the story in one Colombian famous magazine, which spoke of the founding story, children, provided services.
HOW AGENCY IS FUNDED
ReplyDeleteThe story of the way the organization was funded has to do much with personal inputs of the director of this Kindergarten and her husband.
Being broght up in a obviously more advantaged social circumstances than many of other people who live in Medellin (Colombia), having good career opportunities (the director is a doctor and her husband – plastic cirurgian) they decided to provide many children with better life opportunities. That is how the project of looking for a proper house in the center (poorest area in the city ) started with their private contribution.
I did not get to know much about other funds which were supporting the place, but many of the incomes which were used to meet the proper needs of children were:
• Plan „Padrino“ – „Gotfather“
Monthly financial help guarantees for a child integral attention which a child requires for his/her growth, development and capacity to boost and promote his/ her project of life.
Every child was supported by private funding of one „Gotfather“- a person or family who contributes monthly amount of money so the child is provided with proper nutrition, education, clothing, presents for their birthdays.
• Donations
ReplyDeleteIndividuals or institutions are encouraged to donate financially or in other material form (food, bring used but in a good conditions cothes, toys, household items, books, etc.). People were also invited to come to the place and contribute in covering the necesities of the beneficiaries.
• Bono
If someone wants to give a special attention to a beloved person on a special ocasion /date ( birthday, aniversary, condolence..) is able to make it trough card where there is identified the work which was performed with received support on the bahalf of the person‘s name.
• Calendars
For the social commitment personally or with agency people are encouraged to give as a present Calendars of the Kindergarden with the programme for the following year as a form of material sharing and social responsibility.
• Voluntary
People were invited to come and give their personal time, knowledge and dedication with love to reach the objectives of the Corporation.
Every weekdays there were coming women who could contribute from the field of their knowledge. For example being pensioneers they contributed on voluntary basis teaching, working extra hours in the cloth store, helping out to sort food items, preapare the space for special events and etc.
„CASA DEL CAMINO“ AND SOCIOLOGY
ReplyDelete(My personal considerations)
To understand the mission and activities of the agency in a broader sense I chose trese theorethical approaches which could help to illustrate better the social reality the agency is funded in.
Conflict theory
Conflict in R. Dahrendorf‘s (Leonavičius V., 2005) theory stems from social stratifications which is based on power p.ositions in the structure. Structural roots existing in the system may be explained by social roles which are associated with expectations of domination and subordination towards the others. Power always embraces subordination and superordination. People who are in power positions are expected to control those who are situated in lower power positions. Any community or society could be considered as imperatively coordinated asociation if in this unit exists a clearly diferentiated distribution of power.
Colombian society seems to be quite stratified social system. According to what power positions one holds in the system, with associated social role, one is placed into six obvious „official“ stratas. Clearly differentiated living zones also describe to which social strata a person comes from. Strata six – would be poeple who have obviously the best living conditions. Strata 0 -1 – the poorest one‘s. „La Casa del Camino“ is situated in the very centre of Medellin. The centre, contrary from most European countries, in many South American countries is considered to be one of the poorest areas in the city.
Where in the context of obviously existing social stratification and conflicts people are using the „sharing strategy“ – the well off families are sharing and being open to colaborate with the poor ones – constructing consensus, whithout which, acording to Dahrendorf, no society can survive.
Structural functionalism
ReplyDeleteTo provide with clearer vision of the mission of this agency in existing Colombian social system it is useful to use the theory created by Robert Merton (Leonavičius V., 2005) on structural functionalism.
Robert Merton indicated four main types of adaptation according to the way people adjust themselves seeking / refusing to seek cultural aims by institutional/ non- institutional means/patterns.
These types of adaptation are: conformity (when people act seeking cultually set objectives using legitime institutional means), inovation (when people seek the culturally set objectives in non- leagal ways) , ritualism ( when indivuiduals act in ritual ways not seeking cultural objectives), retreatism ( when people refuse to seek culturally set objectives, nor do it in institutionalized ways), rebellion (when people search for revoliutionary ways to adapt themselves in the culture).
Many of the families which children come from cannot provide the young generation with proper socialization, nutrition, education skills. In this case the activities of the agency „ Casa del Camino“ are to prevent children from anomic way of living (when the norms are not being kept and destructive behavior is being created) and to teach an adaptation to the social system which was identified by R.Merton as conformity (in the project called as citizen culture) and so avoid marginalization which is common for the way of retreatism (which is common for beggars f.ex).
Dramaturgical theory
ReplyDeleteShortly speaking of E. Goffman‘s theory on social dramaturgy,( Leonavičius V., 2005)it is important to mention two ways of stigmas people would get being in a position of social marginalization: discredited and discreditable stigmas.
Discredited stigma emerges when the diference between virtual and real identity of a person is very visible to the public (this stigma could appear f.e. when kids are not provided with special needs of proper socialization, dress, lack of physical health and hygiene and etc.).
In case of discreditable stigma public does not know about the difference between virtual and real identities of a person.
We could assume that the children from poor families and with special abuse cases while being socialized, received tretiments of psycologist, educated and provided with important needs that could possibly help them to take off so called „etiquettes“/ stigmas which in other case they could cary for all the rest of their lives.
Symbolic Interactionism
ReplyDeleteAs I was explained by director in one convesation that she and her husband understood that God wanted them to help to many children. That is how the idea of kidergarten was put into action. This issue is an exaple which could be interpreted by Symbolic Interactionism by H. Blumer (Leonavičius V., 2005, Blumer H., 1998). Symlolic Interactionism as a micro social theory emphasizes a reflective individuals who form symbolic actions. It says that a meaning of objects (material, social, abstract) is constructed in a process of social interaction, so as long as individuals mutually agree on the meanings, associated with them (objects).
In this particular sense we could name children as a meaningful social object to both of the members of the family, in this sense not having their own makes them interpret the situation in a way they change the meaning of their mission as parents: interpreting that they can help other children providing them with better living opportunities. This reflective process makes a difference in forming their future actions: establishing an agency for many other children.
Symbolic Interactionism would state that meaning again plays a greatest role and as long as it is kept alive in the social interactions, it stays important in peoples lives.
REFERENCES
Leonavičius V., Norkus Z., Tereskinas A.2005, SOCIOLOGIJOS TEORIJOS, Vytauto Didžiojo Universitetas, Kaunas
Giddens A.,. 2005. SOCIOLOGY. Poligrafija ir informatika.
Blumer H., 1998 (2) Simbolinio interakcionizmo metodologinės nuostatos. Sociologija. Mintis ir veiksmas.
Werbsite of „Casa del Camino“ http://www.comodonar.com/
Facebook group of „Casa del Camino“ http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=75046061416&ref=mf
SW Locums provides social work agency, qualified social worker SWlocums is the leading recruitment agency in London. Call us 01920 823775 for our latest roles.
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