the aim of this study was to analyze the girls meaning making process of f
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analysing the learning process and the characteristics of the acquired knowledge
eighteen women where retrospectively into
we analyze two different strategies that we used to prepare the goes for the upcoming
circumcision
the strategy was the partly open information strategy from somalia
just mean was six years old when she was about to be circumcised
she was very happy when her mother told that next friday you are going to
be circumcised she runtime me gently to her friends telling them that she was happy
it finally was going to happen to her
and she felt inside
that she was lucky that it happened now so she could be a better go
and also and cocked
she describes her excitement as follows
i was ready
i thank my mother to that may be circumcised soon
i was afraid of it
but i was more afraid of being bullied at school
hence in fifteen year old uncut girls being bullied
well the children were divided into two groups
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the uncut
i wanted to belong to the group that have been circumcised
the second strategy was the clothes information strategy from the gambia
nimble was four years old when she was told there was something fantastic we're going
to happen
she was watching her grandmother or on santa mother preparing for those and they told
her that there was gonna be a big celebration they didn't tell what and where
that was a secret
so she was very excited
i was told that was going to summoning
i ask more about it
they said it was secret
i only knew everybody would be there wearing their best clothes and there will be
lots of presents
i was so excited
the next morning she was woken up
washed and dressed
she ate a little breakfast
before she was blindfolded and lead to the side
without knowing that she was going to circumcision
the learning process is carefully monitored and regulated by the mother and it's a re
assuring process a continuous reassuring process of the importance of the competing
now i'll give an example of a typical learning situations
the learning situations typical because not much is set but yet the situation is saturated
with information and learning
at the age of twelve e s one informants and a friend with playing
that would timing high tree
she fell down on her shoulder
she cried and both of them became scaling ran out
there were made by an onto rush towards the start and immediately starting inspecting her
niece regina
see if the interpolation was still intact
and then she said it was alright
i was posted by this because i didn't notice that important
the girls were then told to be more careful and nothing more was set by
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the two girls concluded that we have to be more careful with that place down
there
the two goals
newly circumcised reach a turning point in their understanding of the importance of being circumcised
they were provided with new information in this example
and this narrative they had to build large the by themselves
there are provided with a rich set of metaphors like being clean
being like a mortar
be honourable
these metaphors are building blocks in the construction on their lives that with directing them
in the right directions
metaphors are in themselves unclear
the girls a largely left to themselves in the meaning making process
findings indicate that these two strategies affect that the girls meaning making process differently but
still
the learning outcome seems to be the same
which is
producing honourable and proud women
the learning process is carefully regulated and monitored
but is brought to a halt before reaching critical and reflexive thinking
the knowledge tends to be the people internalise
embodied and morally embraced
there is a variety of information campaigns and behavioural change programs aiming to and fifty
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and vital part of these programs are the educational components
we believe that this study might inform
these programs
we more detailed information about the goal is meeting making process