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Journal of Emerging Trends in Educational Research and Policy Studies (JETERAPS) (Vol 1 No 1)
| Abstract: Incidents of juvenile delinquency are in an all-time high. Shame and decorum have been jettisoned from the conscience of our children hence, statistics of children in prisons and rehabilitation centres round the world are appallingly high. This delinquency has impacted negatively in the provision of education globally. Efforts have been put in place through programmes such as guidance and counseling to try and ameliorate this situation but with little success. The intent of this study was therefore to explore the possibility of the contribution of children's oral poetry in the building up of acceptable personality traits among children. The study limited its scope to studying four children's oral poems purposively sampled from the Gusii community in Kenya. Deconstruction theory was used in determining the multiple meanings of the language of the texts and the contribution of the adduced discourses towards the formation of acceptable personality traits in children. Given that art is a discourse and a form of ideological state apparatuses which conditions its subjects to a specific worldview, deconstruction was augmented by Louis Althusser's ISA strand of Marxist literary theory to demonstrate that the discourses in children's oral poetry can influence children into constructing personality traits that are largely acceptable by their societies. At the conclusion, a psychoanalysis argument is used to tie up the discussion. The study demonstrates that oral poetry is an effective vehicle in personality formation among children. The significance of this study is that its findings contribute to the already existing efforts of training children to fit well in society. It is equally the intent of this study to reawaken efforts of related studies whose aim will be to step up efforts of reducing the numbers of children with mangled personalities |
| Keywords: children's poetry, acceptable personality formation, juvenile delinquency, deconstruction, and signifier/signifieds. |
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