Re-configuring the Rights to Education through Play with Painting and Clay Modelling among Children Affected by the Psychosocial Effects of the Covid19 Pandemic
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Date
2023-08
Authors
Ogutu, Wanyama
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EANSO
Abstract
The devastating COVID-19 pandemic, which resulted in the closure of all
schools for nearly a year, violated articles 43(1)f, 53(1)b, and 55(a) of Kenya’s
2010 constitution on the right to education. The Government of Kenya deprived
UNDP-SGDs (2015) of goals on quality education and UNICEF (2018); Every
Child Learns when enforcing the social distance policy, a direction of World
Health Organization (WHO) (2020) preventive measures. Before the outbreak
of the COVID-19 pandemic, UNICEF (2018) cautioned that any attempt to
inhibit child learning’s welfare, such as play, would harm growth and
development in early childhood. Modern educationalists have asserted that play
with art plays a role in cognitive and social learning as an extension of
recreation and elaboration of their conflicts. The paper aims to reconfigure
rights to education on play with paintings and clay modelling among children
affected by the psychosocial effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The
researcher has focused on descriptive desktop research design art bases
research activities such as playing with painting and clay modelling; it has
examined the literature on psychoanalysis tools to create a discussion on the
paper. The paper acknowledged the mission of WHO (2020), UNDP-SDGs
(2015), UNICEF (2018), and Article 53(1)d of the Kenyan 2010 Constitution
on Good Health for All Children. It has merited play with painting and clay
modelling as a profound tool to re-configure rights to education among children
affected by the psychosocial effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, the
paper suggested a campaign workshop or seminars for play with painting and
clay modelling to champion the right to education among children in schools.
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Keywords
Psychosocial Effects, COVID-19 Pandemic, Play, Children, Paintings, Clay Modelling, Rights to Education
Citation
Ogutu, W. (2023). Re-configuring the Rights to Education Through Play with Painting and Clay Modelling among Children Affected by the Psychosocial Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic. East African Journal of Arts and Social Sciences, 6(2), 37-44. https://doi.org/10.37284/eajass.6.2.1338