Changes in the daily life and play of children in Bhutan

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to clarify the present condition of daily life for children in Bhutan, comparing the differences between districts, especially between a capital city and neighboring village or eastern Bhutan, and examining the influence of societal changes. The paper will report and consider, in detail, home education, children's play and work and how these facets of life are affected by the progress and change of the social economy and sense of values. Date for this paper was collated by conducting surveys and interviews.Results : Education is still fundamentally acquired through home education in Bhutan. On the other hand, it includes curriculum on environmental education, which reflects the communities, classes on religion and tradition. However these are simply set as policy to re-establish cultural identity, in the anticipation that young people 's mindset will change in the modernization. Children's play is almost always the basis of their work, where a part of work is changed into games or sports. The modern sports are in these years. Play, from an educational point of view is necessary for children's growth and advancement, and develop through the influence of the surroundings and human relations. Particularly, in local place, the belongings of children increased than before owing to the establishment of money economy, and have an effect on the way time is spent after school. According to work, children spending more time at school and in their house, in stead of in the fields and mountains, child labour in the 3rd world is still prevalent, and the in stances of which occur in greater numbers the further out of the city they live. Children provide an indirect means of studying an ethnic group, as their activities and daily life reflect the adult culture they live in. It is important to keep on an eyes on the influence of cultural and moral values on the changes in daily life, exposed in television programs. In doing so, one can compare such foreign cultures with those much closer to home.