Browsing Research Output by Subject "participatory action research"
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A critical reflection on the multiple roles required to facilitate mutual learning during service-learning in Creative Arts education
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)In this article, I critically reflect on my own learning during a community-based, service-learning pilot project, highlighting the multiple roles that were required of me as facilitator. I provided opportunity for student ... -
A participatory action research approach to developing youth-friendly strategies for the prevention of teenage pregnancy
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)Teenage pregnancy among school-going youth is a concern worldwide, but in socially-economically challenged environments it is a result of, and contributory factor to, a complex web of social injustice. In South Africa, ... -
A critical reflection on the participatory action process involved in the development of a congnitive-behavioural based counselling intervention programme for youth living with HIV/AIDS in a rural South African town
(Sage, 2011)South Africa currently lacks HIV counselling interventions that are youth-specific and that meet the psychosocial needs of young people living with HIV/AIDS. Indigenous strategies and interventions need to be developed ... -
Ethical implications of community-based research: a call to rethink current review requirements
(Sage, 2017)Researchers need to provide evidence that they have met ethical requirements before entering the field-rightly so, since the power and privilege embedded in academic researchers is considerable. However, given the calls ... -
How youth picture gender injustice: building skills for HIV prevention through a participatory, arts-based approach
(Education Association of South Africa (EASA), 2012)Based on the existing literature on the positive relationship that exists between high instances of HIV infections and a high degree of gender injustices in southern Africa, there is clearly a need for HIV-prevention ... -
Improving the instructional leadership of heads of department in under-resourced schools: a collaborative action-learning approach
(Education Association of South Africa (EASA), 2016)An unacceptable number of learners in under-resourced schools in South Africa are failing to perform adequately in national and international benchmark tests. Poor learner performance has been linked to poor-quality teaching, ... -
Levelling the playing fields in PAR: the intricacies of power, privilege, and participation in a University-Community-School Partnership
(Sage, 2017)When academics, who occupy a traditional position of power and privilege, engage with community members whose thinking, attitudes, and responses have been shaped by ongoing sociohistorical oppression and disadvantage, ...