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'Every teacher is a researcher!': creating indigenous epistemologies and practices for HIV prevention through values-ased action research
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)
Since gender is an undisputed driver of HIV infection, teachers concerned with HIV prevention education should ideally encourage
critical awareness of and culturally sensitive practices around gender inequalities. Many ...
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, ...
Using life design with vulnerable youth
(Wiley, 2016)
Career counseling processes normed for Western contexts may not fully address the needs of vulnerable youth in disadvantaged, non-Western contexts. Therefore, this study examined the utility of a narrative career counseling ...
Shaping social literacy through HIV in Higher Education curricula
(Higher Education South Africa (HESA), 2016)
This article outlines a case for curriculum transformation in respect of HIV education, spearheaded in part by policy debates in the South African Higher Education sector, as well as by the broader social movement led by ...
A participatory approach to service-learning in creative arts education: a win-win learning opportunity for campus and community?
(University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2016)
Service-learning has been shown to be effective in preparing students to live and work in a diverse and rapidly changing society, especially when it is based on a democratic partnership between university students and ...
Drawing AIDS: Tanzanian teachers picture the pandemic. Implications for re-curriculation of teacher education programmes
(UFS, 2013)
In this article, we explain how we engaged teachers in creating their own representations of HIV and AIDS in Tanzania as a starting point for re-curriculation of the undergraduate teacher education programme. We employed ...
The resilience-enabling value of African folktales: the read-me-to-resilience intervention
(SAGE, 2017)
Resilience, or the process of adjusting well to adversity, draws on personal and social ecological resources (i.e., caregiving and community supports). Previous research—conducted mostly in the Global North—has shown that ...
The value of using folktales as an intervention tool to enhance resilience for children orphaned and rendered vulnerable by HIV and AIDS
(Taylor and Francis, 2015)
The recent increase in the number of children orphaned and rendered vulnerable by HIV and AIDS has placed an added burden on schools as sites of care and support. Yet, many teachers regard this pastoral role as an added ...
Using drawings and collages as data generation methods with children: definitely not child's Play
(Sage Publications, 2015)
Appropriate data generation methods are key to a successful research project to attain rich and relevant data. When doing
research with children, the methods selected should be age appropriate and enable them to contribute ...
Values-based self-reflective action research for promoting gender equality: some unexpected lessons
(University of the Free State, 2014)
The idea of using values as a means of guiding our research decisions and judging the validity of our claims of knowledge is well established in literature on the self-reflective genre of action research. Values in action ...