0:00:00the aim of this study was to analyze the girls meaning making process of f
0:00:05g c
0:00:06analysing the learning process and the characteristics of the acquired knowledge
0:00:13eighteen women where retrospectively into
0:00:17we analyze two different strategies that we used to prepare the goes for the upcoming
0:00:22circumcision
0:00:24the strategy was the partly open information strategy from somalia
0:00:30just mean was six years old when she was about to be circumcised
0:00:35she was very happy when her mother told that next friday you are going to
0:00:40be circumcised she runtime me gently to her friends telling them that she was happy
0:00:46it finally was going to happen to her
0:00:49and she felt inside
0:00:50that she was lucky that it happened now so she could be a better go
0:00:55and also and cocked
0:00:58she describes her excitement as follows
0:01:03i was ready
0:01:06i thank my mother to that may be circumcised soon
0:01:12i was afraid of it
0:01:14but i was more afraid of being bullied at school
0:01:19hence in fifteen year old uncut girls being bullied
0:01:23well the children were divided into two groups
0:01:27huh
0:01:28the uncut
0:01:32i wanted to belong to the group that have been circumcised
0:01:39the second strategy was the clothes information strategy from the gambia
0:01:45nimble was four years old when she was told there was something fantastic we're going
0:01:51to happen
0:01:52she was watching her grandmother or on santa mother preparing for those and they told
0:01:58her that there was gonna be a big celebration they didn't tell what and where
0:02:03that was a secret
0:02:05so she was very excited
0:02:10i was told that was going to summoning
0:02:15i ask more about it
0:02:17they said it was secret
0:02:22i only knew everybody would be there wearing their best clothes and there will be
0:02:27lots of presents
0:02:32i was so excited
0:02:36the next morning she was woken up
0:02:39washed and dressed
0:02:40she ate a little breakfast
0:02:42before she was blindfolded and lead to the side
0:02:47without knowing that she was going to circumcision
0:02:57the learning process is carefully monitored and regulated by the mother and it's a re
0:03:03assuring process a continuous reassuring process of the importance of the competing
0:03:15now i'll give an example of a typical learning situations
0:03:19the learning situations typical because not much is set but yet the situation is saturated
0:03:25with information and learning
0:03:31at the age of twelve e s one informants and a friend with playing
0:03:36that would timing high tree
0:03:38she fell down on her shoulder
0:03:42she cried and both of them became scaling ran out
0:03:46there were made by an onto rush towards the start and immediately starting inspecting her
0:03:52niece regina
0:03:53see if the interpolation was still intact
0:03:57and then she said it was alright
0:03:59i was posted by this because i didn't notice that important
0:04:04the girls were then told to be more careful and nothing more was set by
0:04:07dr
0:04:09the two girls concluded that we have to be more careful with that place down
0:04:13there
0:04:17the two goals
0:04:19newly circumcised reach a turning point in their understanding of the importance of being circumcised
0:04:27they were provided with new information in this example
0:04:31and this narrative they had to build large the by themselves
0:04:36there are provided with a rich set of metaphors like being clean
0:04:41being like a mortar
0:04:43be honourable
0:04:46these metaphors are building blocks in the construction on their lives that with directing them
0:04:51in the right directions
0:04:53metaphors are in themselves unclear
0:04:57the girls a largely left to themselves in the meaning making process
0:05:07findings indicate that these two strategies affect that the girls meaning making process differently but
0:05:14still
0:05:15the learning outcome seems to be the same
0:05:19which is
0:05:20producing honourable and proud women
0:05:26the learning process is carefully regulated and monitored
0:05:30but is brought to a halt before reaching critical and reflexive thinking
0:05:36the knowledge tends to be the people internalise
0:05:40embodied and morally embraced
0:05:47there is a variety of information campaigns and behavioural change programs aiming to and fifty
0:05:54c
0:05:55and vital part of these programs are the educational components
0:06:01we believe that this study might inform
0:06:05these programs
0:06:06we more detailed information about the goal is meeting making process