RCE2601 ASSIGNMENT 01 2022 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

RCE2601 ASSIGNMENT 01 2022 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.1. The street vending has become an integral part of the socio-economic structure of Ghana’s economy as a result of combination of political and socio-economic conditions. This has resulted in children becoming part of street sellers, so that there can contribute to their families and household. Moreover the majority of children of street vendors are enrolled in schools; they spend most of their time selling on street for their parents. This confirms that most of these children work and attend school at the same time in order to supplement family income, there often turn up late and tired to concentrate in the classroom and let alone do their homework. Therefore abandon education prematurely. 2. The children of these street vendors are socially, economically and educationally and emotionally vulnerable, which could impact negatively on their development. Many eventually became part of the vicious cycle of poverty and illiteracy. Many different researches have been carried out on street children and streetism in many part of the world. How, it have appear that this category of children, that is children of street vendors who continually find themselves on the streets in the company of their parents, have not been properly classified and investigated and many consequently have been neglected. These children are different from the street children, but they spend most of their time on the street selling and making means to survival. It is noted that these children are in constant contact with their parents, unlike the street children who have no little contact with their parents. It is the aim of this research study to investigate how these children develop socially and educationally scientific information on the development of these children may be useful to parents, schools and government departments. Ghanaians have no other alternative but to enter the informal sector, thereby engaging in street vending, petty trading and hawking, and taking their children along with them. Even though the majority of children of street vendors are enrolled in school, they spend most of their time selling on the street for their parents (balegamire,199:248;windborne, 2006 :166). Akyeampong (2009:193) confirm that most of these children work and attend school at the same time in order to supplement family income or for their own survival, and they