The Need to Adapt and Reform Social Policy: Setting the Stage for Effective Population-friendly Policies

Avramov, Dragana; Cliquet, Robert

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“…The members of “Gracje” are a good example of active aging, which as a general attitude and form of activity has evolved throughout the last sixty years in social policy to the importance of paradigm. It concerns social activities remaining in accordance with values resulting from human rights: the sense of safety, agency, independence, participation and being self-standing [ 48 , 49 ].…”

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Uplifted by Dancing Community: From Physical Activity to Well-Being

Zygmont

Doliński

Zawadzka

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The aim of the article is to present the dancing experience of older adult women who increase their well-being through dancing. That aim was realized through conducting qualitative research in accordance with COREQ among the members of a dance group “Gracje” from Wrocław. In the article, we show that senior women dance as a form of physical activity in the pursuit of health, enabling them to maintain the level of physical ability that allows them to fully enjoy different aspects of life. Thus, health is not only attempting to avoid illnesses, but, first of all, experiencing well-being, i.e., satisfaction with life in its physical, mental (cognitive) and social aspects. That satisfaction touches, in particular, such spheres as acceptance of an aging body, a need for personal growth and entering into new social relationships. Increasing that sense of satisfaction and agency (subjectivity) in each of those spheres as a consequence of organized dancing activity should be treated as one of the most important factors responsible for improving the quality of life of older adult women.

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Uplifted by Dancing Community: From Physical Activity to Well-Being

Zygmont

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Zawadzka

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“…Recent studies continue to report this trend of preferring early retirement (Vidovićová, 2014, 2016); Women tend to leave the labour market earlier in order to fulfil the needs of their families to use ‘the pool of early retired relatives to provide informal care both to (grand)children and to elderly parents’ (Avramov and Cliquet, 2008: 280). Drawing upon the data collected as part of the ‘Work and Lifestyle: Transition 2006’ survey of the Czech population ages 55–65 years, Vidovićová (2014) reports the influence of the (potential) birth of grandchildren on the labour market exit.…”

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Mother–grandmother contracts: Local care loops and the intergenerational transfer of childcare in the Czech Republic

Souralová

2019

Journal of European Social Policy

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This article explores the local care loops in the Czech Republic, a country that experienced radical changes in family policies and in the organization of childcare after the fall of Communism in 1989. The aim of this article is to answer the following questions: What is the dominant pattern of childcare organization? What is the nature of the local care loops in the Czech Republic? How are these local care loops reproduced by current social policies? Where are their roots in the pre-1989 period? To answer these questions, the article investigates the local care loops and everyday mobilities of childcare in the Czech Republic. It draws upon secondary analysis of scholarly (sociological and anthropological) works that focus on childcare and its organization and of works that analyse relevant social policies. The article presents the following findings: local care loops in the Czech Republic are endogamous and matrilineal, they follow a gendered care contract between generations of women, and they are thus part of intergenerational solidarity. The analysis illuminates how the care loops are shaped by the social policies that affect care cultures in the Czech Republic.

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“…Very obedient, subservient, and silent girls were found alongside more active, vibrant, and selfconfident boys in a classroom study of individuals in natural contexts (ethnography) in one of Venezuela's rural parts of the country (Avramov and Cliquet, 2005). Female students were particularly shy during class demonstrations, compared to self-assured but less prepared boys.…”

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“…Female students were particularly shy during class demonstrations, compared to self-assured but less prepared boys. In an attempt to explain the high percentages of female achievement and male dropout, Avramov and Cliquet (2005) linked these two findings to the incentives girls acquire in school for being respectable, submissive, subservient, and industrious. In the classroom spaces, teachers expect girls to be cautious than boys before they speak (Hosseini, 2015).…”

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Space, geography and gendered experiences of children: a narrative study of four high schools in Hhohho region, Eswatini.

Makamure

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unparalleled support and invaluable guidance throughout the study. The constructive remarks and comments on each phase of the dissertation contributed to the fruitful outcome of this research.• Prof Nyna Amin, thank you for supporting me. May God favor you with good health and abundant life.• My family, for the support they gave me during the long academic journey.• The Former Director of Education in Eswatini, Dr Sibongile Mtshali, for allowing me to carry out the research in the schools.• The Head teachers in the four high schools where the research was carried out: thank you very much for being cooperative.• The pupils who availed themselves for the research: thank you very much; likewise, to the parents for allowing your children to participate in this research. May you be blessed by the Lord.• All my friends, who too many to mention, thank you for the different roles you played in encouraging me through this long journey.

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The Need to Adapt and Reform Social Policy: Setting the Stage for Effective Population-friendly Policies

Cited by 4 publications

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Uplifted by Dancing Community: From Physical Activity to Well-Being

Uplifted by Dancing Community: From Physical Activity to Well-Being

Mother–grandmother contracts: Local care loops and the intergenerational transfer of childcare in the Czech Republic

Space, geography and gendered experiences of children: a narrative study of four high schools in Hhohho region, Eswatini.

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