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An action research inquiry into a bereavement project in GiyaniShivambu, Elizabeth 07 September 2012 (has links)
M.Ed. / The research was done in Sections A, DI, D2 and E, Giyani Township, in the Northern Province. The main participants were mothers who had lost their adult children in fatal traffic accidents. Other members of the community were also interviewed to find out about their attitudes towards traffic fatalities of young people in Giyani. The research methods used were interviews, questionnaires and observations. These three methods were found to be appropriate in the elicitation of the data. The main purpose of the research was to find out what the views of bereaved parents were with regard to an awareness campaign in road safety. After the analysis of data, it was found that people in Giyani do really need a solution to the said problem, but they would most probably prefer a support group whereby people would be offered assistance after traumatic experiences - not necessarily only when confronted with fatal traffic experiences, but all types of trauma. The opinion of a support group was that people believed traffic fatalities are unpredictable and unavoidable.
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A participatory action research approach to programme evaluation in a rural societyBester, Alte 03 1900 (has links)
Thesis (MA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2002. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Recently, Participatory action research (PAR) has become a common approach to
social programmes in South Africa. This tendency has created a need to evaluate
this kind of programmes to determine if it really achieves what it sets out to do. The
purpose of this study was to evaluate an entrepreneurial skills training programme in
a rural community where a participatory action research approach was followed.
A literature review was undertaken to present an in-depth look into the body of
literature that surrounds the study. Programme evaluation was discussed as a
research design, including types and stages of evaluation. The concept of
empowerment was investigated. The review also included a study of literature on
PAR, especially the definitions, context and process of PAR. The role of
entrepreneurship in rural development was also investigated as well as the
evaluation of entrepreneurial skills training programmes.
An entrepreneurial skills training programme was implemented in the rural town of
Darling on the West Coast of South Africa. The PAR approach was followed in the
implementation of the study that was conducted over a period of 15 months.
Participants joined the programme that included different projects, voluntarily. The
participants were divided into three groups according to their period of participation in
the programme. The researcher facilitated actions as well as reflection meetings with
the group of participants before and after the entrepreneurial skills training course.
The researcher made field notes during the implementation of the programme. The
participants' empowerment status was measured with a standardized questionnaire
using a pre-test-post-test design. The participants' application of the entrepreneurial
skills that were taught in the course was measured during semi-structured interviews
at the end of the research perico. four case studies document the extremes of the
respective outcomes of the programme, namely empowerment and entrepreneurship.
Statistical analysis showed statistically significant improvements in the micro, macro
and total empowerment scores of the total group. Looking at the three groups
separately, group one showed statistically significant improvements on the micro and interface levels and group two on the micro level. Even though group three showed
small improvements on all three levels, none of them were statistically significant.
Data from the field notes wer:e analyzed according to the PAR concepts of
participation, action and reflection. Participation mostly had a collaborative nature;
action was aimed at economical change and reflection aimed at practical problem
solving. The interviews revealed that 20 of the 24 participants had micro baking
businesses at the end of the research period and they succeeded in the short-term
goal of applying the skills that were taught in the course. The case studies showed no
correlation between the participants' application of entrepreneurial skills and the
changes in their empowerment status.
The findings of the study suggest that the longer participants participate in a PAR
programme, the bigger the improvement in their empowerment status will be.
Monitoring of the implementation revealed that the study fell short of the "ideal type"
of PAR, since participation was not yet collegiate. Actions were only effective in
economic change and not in social transformation. Reflection resulted in limited
critical self-awareness among the participants. The PAR approach has proven to be
successful in the attainment of the short-term goals of an entrepreneurial skills
training programme. The long-term sustainability of the entrepreneurs' businesses
will have to be followed-up by further research. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die afgelope tyd is deelnemende aksie navorsing (DAN)'n algemene benadering tot
sosiale intervensie programme in Suid-Afrika. Hierdie tendens het 'n behoefte laat
ontstaan om hierdie tipe programme te evalueer om te bepaal of dit werklik die
program doelwitte bereik. Die doel van hierdie studie was om 'n
entrepreneursvaardighede opleidingsprogram in 'n landelike gemeenskap waar die
DAN-benadering gevolg is, te evalueer.
'n Literatuuroorsig is onderneem om die konseptueie raamwerk wat vir die studie
saamgestel is, te kan beredeneer. Programevaluering, insluitende tipes and stadia
van evaluering, is bespreek as 'n navorsingsontwerp. Die konsep van bemagtiging is
ook bestudeer. Die oorsig het 'n ook studie van literatuur oor DAN ingesluit, veral
definisies, die konteks en die proses van DAN. Die rol van entrepreneurskap in
landelike ontwikkeling is 00~ ondersoek sowel as die evaluering van
opleidingsprogramme gemik op die ontwikkeling van entrepreneursvaardighede.
'n Entrepreneursvaardighede opleidingsprogram is in 'n landelike dorpie, Darling, aan
die Weskus van Suid-Afrika geïmplementeer. Oor 'n periode van 15 maande is die
DAN-benadering in die implementering van die program gevolg. Deelnemers het
vrywillig by die program wat uit verskillende projekte bestaan het, aangesluit. Die
deelnemers is na aanleiding van hul tydperk van deelname in die program in drie
groepe verdeel. Die navorser het aksies sowel as refleksie byeenkomste met die
groep deelnemers voor en na die entrepreneursvaardighede opleidingskursus
gefasiliteer. Die navorser het veldnotas tydens die implementering van die program
gemaak. Die deelnemers se bemagtigingstatus is gemeet met 'n gestandaardiseerde
vraelys terwyl 'n voor-en-na-toets ontwerp gevolg is. Die deelnemers se toepassing
van die entrepreneursvaardighede wat in die kursus geleer is, is tydens semigestruktureerde
onderhoude aan die einde van die navorsingsperiode gemeet. Vier
gevallestudies dokumenteer die uiterstes van die onderskeidelike uitkomste van die
program, naamlik bemagtiging en entrepreneurskap. Statistiese analise het statisties betekenisvolle verbeteringe in die mikro, makro en
totale bemagtigingsvlakke van die totale groep getoon. Afsonderlik gesien, het groep
een statisties betekenisvolle verbeteringe op die mikro en tussenvlak getoon en
groep twee net op die mikrovlak. Alhoewel groep drie klein verbeteringe op al drie
vlakke getoon het, was geen van die verbeteringe statisties betekenisvol nie. Data
van die veldnotas is volgens DAN konsepte, naamlik deelname, aksie en refleksie
geanaliseer. Die deelnemers en die fasiliteerder se deelname het meestal In
samewerkende aard gehad, aksie was gemik op ekonomiese verandering en
refleksie was gemik op praktiese probleemoplossinq. Die onderhoude het aangetoon
dat 20 van die 24 deelnemers aan die einde van die navorsingsperiode In mikro
bakbesigheid gehad het en dat hulle daarin geslaag het om die korttermyn doelwit,
naamlik die toepassing van die vaardighede wat in die kursus geleer is, te bereik. Die
gevallestudies het geen korrelasie getoon tussen die deelnemers se toepassing van
entrepreneursvaardighede en die veranderinge in hulle bemagtigingstatus nie.
Die studie se bevindinge dui daarop dat hoe langer deelnemers aan In DAN-program
deelneem, hoe groter sal die verbetering in hulle bemagtigingstatus wees. Die
monitering van die implementering van die program het laat biyk dat die studie tekort
skiet in vergelyking met die "ideaaltipe" van DAN, want die deelname was nog nie
korporatief nie. Aksies was net suksesvol in ekonomiese verandering en nie in
sosiale transformasie nie. Refleksie het tot beperkte kritiese "selfbewustheid" by die
deelnemers gelei. Dit blyk dat die DAN-benadering suksesvol was om die korttermyn
doelwitte van In entrepreneursvaardighede opleidingsprogram te bereik. Die
langtermyn volhoubaarheid van die entrepreneurs se bakbesighede sal met verdere
navorsing opgevolg moet word.
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Working Towards Improved Facilitation of Research Capacity Development at Walter Sisulu University (WSU) Using Action Research (AR) MethodologySotshangane, Nkosinathi Owen January 2015 (has links)
This study was originally undertaken to change and improve the way I do my practice at Walter Sisulu University as a Research Associate whose responsibility is to facilitate research capacity development and research excellence within the University, amongst academics and postgraduate students. The success of the Research Resource Centre that I manage depends on the way I promote research culture and research productivity amongst academics and postgraduate students. According to Leedy and Ormrod (2013, p. 2), research is a systematic process that is used to collect, analyse, and interpret data in order to increase my understanding of the phenomenon about interest and concern about a given/identified phenomenon. In this case my own practice changed and improved for the better. The main objective of this study, therefore, was to examine the reasons behind the decline in research productivity in terms of research output and how this could be reversed through action research study intervention in order to enhance research productivity at Walter Sisulu University (WSU). The Department of Higher Education and Training’s (DHET) allocation of research output units for WSU indicated that there was a decline in research output from 2005 to 2010. The extent to which my practice improvement could contribute towards changing or improving research productivity was a question which this study addressed through a quantitative, qualitative and self-reflective action research cyclic inquiry. I organized sample strategies of this study as follows: For quantitative data, I used 120 lecturers as my respondents through questionnaires (females = 47 and males = 73) who were randomly selected; For qualitative data, I used 24 lecturers as respondents who were randomly selected with whom I conducted interviews; and For self-reflective action research cyclic inquiry I used 7 Transformative Education/al Studies (TES) project group members as my focus group. My research findings concluded that the heavy teaching workload at WSU was problematic and lecturers/academics could not devote time to do research. My recommendation is that research should be made compulsory so that academics become aware that at least one or two published articles are required from them, for the benefit of annual university research productivity. Some research participants also recommended that the Research Resource Centre must include programs that focus directly on active participation in research in order to increase the capacity of individual researchers so as to build a critical mass of competent researchers, perhaps by even including incentives as a reward for doing research. According to Koshy (2010), action research is a specific method of conducting research by professionals and practitioners with the ultimate aim of improving practice. My new knowledge, therefore, in respect of how a concerned Research Associate, from a Historically Disadvantaged Institution (HDI), provided the impetus to create a collaborative practice in a higher education institution which was forced to merge with two former technikons (which lacked understanding of what a university means by research productivity and research output). I consequently developed the Nkosinathi Sotshangane’s cyclic practice improvement model through self-reflective action research, from which I believed other research practitioners could learn by doing something similar in their own context.
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A participatory action research study of junior youth-led community action in Durban, South AfricaVarjavandi, Roya January 2017 (has links)
Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Degree of Masters of Management Sciences Specialising in Public Management, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2017. / Informed by Bronfenbrenner’s theory of social ecosystems and embedded in the Freirean pedagogy of participatory and critical praxis, this youth-led participatory action research (YPAR) study aims to highlight the power and potential of young people as peacebuilders. Bringing attention to the powerful capacity young people have in transforming society, the entire process was guided by the following meta-question: “how can YPAR assist young people to become active agents in the construction of peace?”
Approximately 20 young people aged between 13 and 17 from a low-income high-density neighbourhood in central Durban became co-researcher volunteers in the program. Their participation in a six phases process involved exploration and identification of the social needs of the community, followed by planning, implementing and evaluating a peacebuilding intervention. The data itself is comprised of the activities that constituted the YPAR program, including drama skits, mapping and photo story posters. The data was collected using research diaries, video and audio recording and photography.
Through the involvement of participants in research and action as “peace leaders,” the findings highlight the potential of YPAR in the peacebuilding field. / M
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Developing treatment for abused children : an action research case reportCasati, Nicolette Domenique 04 June 2014 (has links)
M.A. (Clinical Psychology) / Please refer to full text to view abstract
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Die vestiging van gemeenskapsgedrewe geīntegreerde opgvanggebiedbestuur : die Veldwachtersrivier opvanggebiedKunneke, Maria Magdalena 04 1900 (has links)
Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch, 2004. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: South Africa is a semi-arid country with an average annual rainfall of 197mm, in comparison with
the international average of 860mm per year, of which the available freshwater sources are currently
being utilised virtually completely. The water restrictions in the Western Cape during the summer
of 2000/2001 and of 2001/2002 are sufficient evidence of this. This threatening water shortage
holds far-reaching consequences for the socio-economic development of the country if an active
effort is not made to manage the water resources in a sustainable manner. Starting in the 1990s, the
concept of integrated catchment management crCM) began to enjoy widespread attention as a
mechanism to manage water resources. However, it was primarily forced, state-initiated projects
with little direct community involvement that enjoyed a limited amount of success.
This study undertook community-driven, integrated catchment management in a relatively small
catchment in the Veldwachters River valley in the Stellenbosch area in the Western Cape in order to
investigate the effectiveness thereof as a mechanism for sustainable water resource management.
The study firstly places the concept of rCM in perspective, after which the study area is demarcated
spatially within the South African and the regional context. Community-based action research as
research approach provides the techniques to reconcile and integrate the duality of the rCM process,
namely the human and physical elements in a catchment, and to successfully involve the community
in the process. The first phase of the study entails the gathering of existing and new information and
the definition of the environmental status of the catchment area in a situation analysis, which was
presented to the community as an information document to initiate public participation. During the
second phase, a community partnership was established by means of introductory interviews,
correspondence, focus group meetings and public forums. The third and executive phase was
characterised by the mobilisation of the community partnership in the execution of strategic
planning procedures, such as the formulation of a catchment vision, prioritisation of relevant
catchment management issues, the statement of the management objectives and the formulation and
implementation of action plans for the management of various issues in the catchment.
The conclusion drawn after a thorough evaluation of the course of the study is that the
implementation of community-driven integrated catchment management can be successful ina smaller catchment. A few crucial requirements need to be taken into consideration in future
applications elsewhere, namely:
• That the study area must have a small enough area so that all stakeholders can be involved
relatively easily and for a catchment identity and "ownership" of the process to be able to
develop;
• That the process must initially be facilitated externally until a community partnership has been
established and a management committee has been elected, after which the facilitation and
management of the process must be handed to the community so that it can finally become
completely community driven;
• That socio-econornic issues initially will receive more attention than the natural environment,
but that these issues need to be utilised to establish the ICM process, after which the natural
environment naturally will receive greater priority; and
• That the researcher must remain patient, particularly during the second and third phases of the
process, as public participation and particularly the establishment of a community-driven
process can be slow and exhausting.
This case study emphasises that each application of ICM will be unique because the degree of
community involvement and the priorities of catchment communities will differ. Communitydriven
integrated catchment management is not, under any circumstances, an instant solution for
water management and water conservation issues, but it is the only sustainable option.
KEY WORDS: catchment management, public/community participation, situation analysis, water
resource management, action research. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Suid-Afrika is 'n semi-ariede land met 'n gemiddelde reenvalsyfer van 497mm per jaar teenoor die
wereldgemiddelde van 860mm per jaar, waarvan beskikbare varswaterbronne tans byna ten volle
benut word. Die waterbeperkings in die Wes-Kaap gedurende die somers van 2000/2001 en
200112002 is afdoende bewys hiervan. Hierdie dreigende watemood hou verreikende gevolge vir
die sosio-ekonomiese ontwikkeling van die land in, indien daar nie 'n daadwerklike poging
aangewend gaan word om die waterhulpbronne volhoubaar te bestuur nie. Sedert die negentigerjare
het die konsep van geintegreerde opvanggebiedbestuur (GOGB) as waterhulpbronbestuursmeganisme
wye belangstelling begin geniet. Dit was hoofsaaklik afgedwonge,
staatsgeinisieerde projekte met min direkte gemeenskapsbetrokkenheid wat beperkte sukses gehad
het.
Hierdie studie het 'n gemeenskapsgedrewe geintegreerde opvanggebiedbestuur op 'n relatief klein
opvanggebied in die Veldwachtersrivier vallei in die Stellenbosch omgewing in die Wes-Kaap
ondemeem, ten einde die effektiwiteit daarvan as 'n volhoubare waterhulpbron-bestuursmeganisme
te ondersoek. Die studie plaas eerstens die konsep van GOGB in perspektief, waama die
studiegebied ruimtelik binne die Suid-Afrikaanse en streekskonteks afgebaken word.
Gemeenskapsgebaseerde aksienavorsing as navorsingsbenadering verskaf die tegnieke om die
tweeledigheid van die GOGB proses, naamlik menslike en fisiese elemente in 'n opvanggebied, te
verso en en te integreer en om die gemeenskap suksesvol by die proses te betrek. Die eerste fase van
die studie behels die insameling van bestaande en nuwe inligting en die ornskrywing van die
omgewingstatus van die opvanggebied in 'n situasie-analise, wat as inligtingsdokurnent aan die
gemeenskap voorgele word om publieke deelname te inisieer. Gedurende die tweede fase is 'n
gemeenskapsvennootskap gevestig met behulp van inleidende onderhoude, korrespondensie,
fokusgroepbyeenkomste en pub Iieke forums. Die derde en uitvoerende lase is gekenmerk deur die
mobilisering van die gemeenskapsvennootskap m die uitvoering van strategiese
beplanningsprosedures soos die formulering van 'n opvanggebiedvisie, prioritisering van tersaaklike
opvanggebiedkwessies, bestuursdoelwitstelling en die formulering en implementering van
aksieplanne vir die bestuur van verskeie kwessies in die opvanggebied. Die gevolgtrekking na die noukeurige evaluering van die verloop van hierdie studie, is dat die
implementering van gemeenskapsgedrewe gemtegreerde opvanggebiedbestuur in 'n kleiner
opvanggebied wel suksesvol kan wees. 'n Paar beslissende vereistes moet met toekomstige
toepassings elders in ag geneem word, naamIik:
• Dat die studiegebied oppervlakgewys klein genoeg moet wees sodat alle rolspelers relatief
maklik betrek kan word en 'n opvanggebied-identiteit en "eienaarskap" van die proses kan
ontwikkel;
• Die proses moet aanvanklik ekstem fasiliteer word, totdat 'n gemeenskapsvennootskap gevestig
is en 'n bestuurskomitee verkies is, waama die fasilitering en bestuur van die proses aan die
gemeenskap oorgegee moet word om uiteindelik ten volle gemeenskapsgedrewe te word;
• Dat sosio-ekonomiese kwessies aanvanklik aandag b6 die natuurlike omgewing sal geniet, maar
dat hierdie kwessies benut moet word om die GOGB proses te vestig, waama die natuurlike
omgewing vanselfsprekend hoer prioriteit sal geniet; en
• Dat die navorser veral gedurende die tweede en derde fases van die proses geduld moet behou,
omdat publieke deelname en veral die vestiging van 'n gemeenskapsgedrewe proses, tydsaam
en vermoeiend kan wees.
Hierdie gevallestudie beklemtoon dat elke toepassing van GOGB uniek sal wees omdat die mate van
gemeenskapsdeelname en -prioriteite tussen opvanggebiedgemeenskappe sal verskil.
Gemeenskapsgedrewe gemtegreerde opvanggebiedbestuur is onder geen ornstandighede 'n
kitsoplossing vir waterbestuur en -bewaring nie, maar dit is die enigste volhoubare opsie.
SLEUTEL WOORDE: opvanggebiedbestuur, publieke/gemeenskapsdeelname, situasie-analise,
waterhulpbronbestuur, aksienavorsing
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The community police forum as an approach to crime prevention in the informal settlement of Stanza Bopape, Mamelodi TownshipVujovic, Marnie 28 August 2012 (has links)
M.A. / Crime hits the poor hardest since they are least able to cope with its consequences. In South Africa violent crime especially is increasing and in communities like Mamelodi, citizens are responding by taking the law into their own hands. Vigilantism proliferates necessitating police action and further straining a historically difficult community-police relationship which Community Police Forums (CPFs) aim to transform. This study looks at how residents of Stanza Bopape, an informal settlement in Mamelodi, organise themselves against crime. It considers the implications of this organisation for the CPF, a cornerstone of the Community Policing Model now enshrined in the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, and examines ways in which the CPF can retain support and enhance its credibility within the community. The opportunity is provided for many different voices in the community to be heard so that diverse groups can participate in the ongoing quest for an effective strategy against crime.
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Capacity building for general assistantsSekgota, Mmabatho Raesetja Catherine 11 1900 (has links)
A study was conducted to explore the impact on change which a process of participatory research has on capacity building for the general assistants within the Northern Province in terms of the mission statement of the Office on the Status of Women between July 1997 and September 1998. The mission of the office is as
follows: " ... to establish mechanisms and procedures that will move the province towards gender equality, thereby empowering women to have equal access to opportunities and resources which will enhance their quality of life". The target group for Office on the Status of Women is women within the government service irrespective of race and socio-political status. These general assistants were said to be the "left behind" group when issues affecting women like National and International Women's Days are celebrated. Themes of concern were identified and addressed. / Social Work / M.A. (Social Science (Mental Health))
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Capacity building for general assistantsSekgota, Mmabatho Raesetja Catherine 11 1900 (has links)
A study was conducted to explore the impact on change which a process of participatory research has on capacity building for the general assistants within the Northern Province in terms of the mission statement of the Office on the Status of Women between July 1997 and September 1998. The mission of the office is as
follows: " ... to establish mechanisms and procedures that will move the province towards gender equality, thereby empowering women to have equal access to opportunities and resources which will enhance their quality of life". The target group for Office on the Status of Women is women within the government service irrespective of race and socio-political status. These general assistants were said to be the "left behind" group when issues affecting women like National and International Women's Days are celebrated. Themes of concern were identified and addressed. / Social Work / M.A. (Social Science (Mental Health))
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Tsoga O Itirele : a reflection on a participatory action research processNtsoane, Dikeledi Regina 01 1900 (has links)
The report is about participatory action research with caregivers at the 'Tsoga 0 ltirele" centre for the mentally disabled. It was a process where the caregivers were involved in a series of action, plan and reflection in researching their situation. The facilitation process assisted the caregivers to look at their problems at the centre
and improve service delivery in caring for the mentally disabled children. Several meetings were held where action, plan and reflection took place. Caregivers decided on their own when to meet and discuss issues that concerned them. They planned what needed to be dealt with and took collective action to address these needs.
The facilitation process enabled caregivers to research their own problems, embrace errors experienced and recognise progress. People Centred Approach, Community Development and Participatory Action Research complemented one another in capacitating caregivers. Through it they learned to improve their own programmes and to run their meetings, improve marketing skills and fundraising. / Social Work / M.A. (Social Science (Mental Health))
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