%0 Journal Article
%T Crises impacting South African menĄ¯s participation in early socio
%A Chinedu IO Okeke
%J South African Journal of Psychology
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0081246317729572
%X The objective of this study was to establish the factors that hinder men from actively participating in the early socio-education development of their children. An exploratory sequential design and semistructured interviews were used to engage 25 purposively sampled fathers who live in communities within the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality. Qualitative data were analysed through analytic induction and grounded theorising and presented descriptively. ColemanĄ¯s social capital theory provided the theoretical lenses that enabled an understanding of menĄ¯s crises that impacted the rationale for the nature of the interventions suggested in this article. Findings indicate that participants experienced extreme crises that impeded their ability to genuinely participate in early socio-education development of their children. Fathers reported experiencing huge crises, some of which appeared self-imposed. The social system that immensely stereotypes men appeared to further deepen their crises, which resulted in their inability to contribute to childrenĄ¯s socio-education development. Most current explanatory models on menĄ¯s participatory experiences in childrenĄ¯s early social development are largely deficient, derogatory, and recriminatory. The author suggests that such interpretive models may be counterproductive. If fathers are to genuinely contribute to childrenĄ¯s socio-education development, father-specific support programmes must be put in place. Some helpful interventions have been suggested
%K Childhood development
%K early education
%K father inability
%K father participation
%K social capital theory
%K support programmes
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0081246317729572