This paper focuses on an ongoing project in rural South Africa involving teachers and community health workers addressing their work with youth HIV AIDS. It outlines a photo-voice component of the project, highlighting particular design features setting up such addresses five emerging issues visual methodologies: technical concerns, interpretation, ethical documentation taking action. The concludes by looking at ways which kind reflexivity afforded methodologies can help to make visible plan...

Abstract Objective: This paper focuses on the use of participatory approaches to research and intervention explores uses photo-voice as a methodology means promoting childhood youth activism in context HIV AIDS. Method: Photo-voice, visual methodology, was used with 21 Grade 8 9 learners one three schools participating larger project, identify, understand interpret incidents related stigma discrimination against people living affected by AIDS, well strategies proposed possibly reduce stigma....

In South Africa, the centrality of gender‐based violence in spread HIV/AIDS has led to many educational efforts address it. The particular social values that male teachers hold around have been less examined. By focusing on African teachers' understandings violence, this paper highlights complex and contested processes through which meaning is made. We argue without addressing specific teacher realities interrogation unequal gender relations might be inhibited schools.

The ubiquity of cellphones in South Africa, a country ravaged by HIV and AIDS, makes an easily  accessible tool to use participatory approaches addressing ( Human Immunodeficiency Virus ) AIDS  Acquired Syndrome issues, particularly school contexts. In this article we explore visual approach undertaken with group rural teachers, uncover address AIDS related issues. Drawing on our experience using video, used produce cellphilms about youth risk the context AIDS. Noting that teachers brought...

Drawing on fieldwork with rural teachers in S outh A frica, this article highlights the significance of cellphone technology participatory video and its potential to alter research environment. To date much work area visual methodologies (including video) particularly context working marginalized communities, has relied researcher‐led projects wherein it is team who as outsiders bring cameras for community. In most cases departs, taking them, but even where are left behind, sustainability...

This article explores the use of participatory video in finding solutions to challenges faced by schools and communities contexts poverty AIDS pandemic one rural community KwaZulu‐Natal, South Africa. Locating analysis within study feminist visual culture notion female gaze, focuses on a close reading production three‐minute produced women participating project involving teachers, learners, healthcare workers, parents. We textual look at three levels textuality: primary text, audience text....

We document the efforts of faculty education a large research-oriented university in supporting doctoral learning. The development space for learning is line with need to develop community researchers South Africa. describe historical origins this cohort model supervision and support, draw on literature around learning, analyse students’ evaluation seminars over three years. findings indicate that has great value developing scholarship reflective practice candidates, providing support...

Gender-based violence is a reality in many societies and linked to the spread of HIV AIDS. There have been numerous studies that attempted acquire an understanding breadth depth issues around gender-based violence. However, one area has received scant attention voices women teachers. Thus, this article, drawing on qualitative research focus group interviews, we explore teachers who teach rural school KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, their views We conclude voices, both relation broader societal...

This article addresses a theoretical and methodological intervention in support of inclusion for girls with disabilities Vietnam. Drawing on an internationally collaborative project, Monitoring Educational Rights Girls Disabilities Vietnamese schools, we critically engage the politics exclusion education. Using critical framework that foregrounds lived experiences 21 Vietnam, ask how might strengthen participatory knowledge production through work monitoring rights order to inform practices...

In spite of the importance sexuality education and HIV AIDS in preventing infections, Zimbabwean secondary school Guidance Counseling teachers are not engaging optimally with current Counseling, & Life Skills curriculum, hence, they serving needs learners context pandemic. The aim study, therefore, was to explore how could be enabled teach necessary critical content curriculum. A qualitative research design, informed by a paradigm, using participatory visual methodology methods such as...

Gender-based violence is pervasive in South African society and often seen as the driver of HIV, particularly affecting youth. Rural KwaZulu-Natal, where we have been working a district an on-going university-school partnership, noted epicentre epidemic. The two secondary schools this study were therefore conveniently chosen while 30 Grade 9 learners, 7 boys 23 girls between ages 13–16, purposively selected. use participatory visual methodologies, which focus special issue, taps into notion...

This article seeks to address what it means be an ‘engaged’ university and, in so doing, contribute current discourses – a fast growing field about how collaborate with communities for meaningful social transformation. As group of researchers from the faculty education South African university, we share our thinking and theoretical notions that underpinned planning executing 3-year engagement rural secondary school. In asking ‘How might dialogic community serves, enable agency towards active...

This paper focuses on youth voices about sex and AIDS reveals significant discrepancies between the 'ideal adult worldview' 'practical sexual matters. In discussing 'youth worldview', it draws Piaget's theories of childhood development Perry's theory student development, both which postulate that children cannot learn material if they have not reached a particular level development. It concludes life skills implementation is key issue to HIV prevention among young people. argued such...

This article presents visual participatory approaches as a way to address HIV and AIDS in rural South African setting. The suggests that imaging has merit for supporting intervention with learners, teachers, community health care workers parents ravaged by the pandemic. It also summary of findings from three year project which was applied research intervention, issues around & AIDS. In this an asset-based framework understanding use methodologies approach is used, creating contexts change...

In exploring gender activism with girls and young women in South Africa, we take up, this visual essay, the practices strategies of a group 14 whom have been ...

AbstractThis article advances the idea that rural youth and teachers are key in leading community dialogue towards addressing gender-based violence (GBV) their through film making. The voices on realities of GBV school community, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, captured process participatory video, used to engage a group thinking about community. teachers' engagement with five videos – analysis archiving provided an opportunity deepen understanding by also interrogating own stance led them...

Rapid developments in digital technologies have sparked revolutionary shifts participatory research. Emerging tools such as stories and cellphilms offer participants opportunities to engage actively research produce media about their everyday lives. Yet, while these may enable engagement, researchers need ensure that the very meant of nonviolence are not themselves violent. This article uses a technology-based, visual methods workshop conducted with girls young women part addressing sexual...

This discussion piece focuses on possible strategies for taking action around some of the challenges teachers and schools in rural communities face context larger systemic changes southern Africa, particularly HIV/AIDS. For this purpose we examine five key entry points, i.e. teachers’ lives, school leadership management, voices young people, working with communities, partnerships pedagogies preparing new teachers. We propose visual participatory research as a strategy providing space...