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291	Sinoville crisis centre: evaluation of a volunteer based initiative Mason, Henry David 25 August 2009 (has links) South Africa is a country steeped in decades of conflict and animosity. Apartheid and its consequences do not simply die: it has created a society struggling for survival. Against the backdrop of a country and its people still experiencing an extended social crisis, these struggles are socially constructed through various forms of aggressive, traumatic and violent behaviours such as crime victimisation. The resultant effect is that many South Africans are traumatised and require assistance to manage and deal with the impact of traumatic exposure. Counselling and psychological services within the South African context are limited, potentially expensive and often inaccessible to the poor. One way to address the needs of victims of crime and violence, is through the establishment of one-stop multidisciplinary crisis centres that specialise in short term crisis intervention service delivery. One such a crisis centre is the Sinoville Crisis Centre (SCC). The purpose of the study is to present an exploratory qualitative and participatory action research account of the SCC's endeavours and ongoing challenges in providing crisis intervention services as well as to serve as a guideline for future development. Research interviews with seven (7) SCC counsellors were complimented with a focus group interview. Subsequent conclusions were grounded in relation to relevant subject theory. Three (3) broad categories of recommendations are provided. Specific recommendations are levelled in relation to: * The SCC's crisis intervention models * The SCC's need to manage organisational change and loss; and * The SCC's role within the Victim Empowerment Programme. / Psychology / M.A. (Psychology) Participatory action research Qualitative research Pathogenesis Salutogenesis Victim support Victim empowerment Crisis intervention Community based crisis centre Sinoville crisis centre Crisis theory Crisis intervention 362.880968227 Sinoville Crisis Centre Violence -- Psychological aspects Community psychiatry
292	A journey to healing: conversations of women survivors of sexual abuse Gunter, Rianda 01 January 2002 (has links) A journey to healing is a story of women survivors of sexual abuse. Through narrative pastoral conversations a group or community of concern was formed that witnessed how these women managed to move by re-telling from problem-saturated dominant lifestories to rich alternative stories of survival. Post-modern practical theology formed the epistemological backdrop of this study with the focus on taking a prophetically, ethical and political stance. The group deconstructed patriarchal knowledge that has been dominant in constructing understanding of women. Deconstruction lead to the centralising of previously subjugated knowledge about themselves and made multiple identities and preferred realities possible. Feminist theology's liberating spirit contributed to this participator action research where women moved from being right to doing right. The monthly celebration teas hosted by the group were instrumental in the healing of other women who have experienced sexual violation. / Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology / M.Th. (Pastoral Therapy) Pastoral narrative group conversations Post-modern practical theology Survivors of childhood sexual abuse Social construction Feminist theology Participatory action research 616.8914 Postmodernism -- Religious aspects Sexual abuse victims -- Rehabilitation Narrative therapy Pastoral counseling Counseling -- Religious aspects Feminist theology Spiritual healing
293	Transformation of a service organisation through participatory action research Harrison, Elaine Sonet 11 1900 (has links) The research aimed to pro-activeiy embark in an internal transformation process, in order to improve efficiency of the Social Work Department of Gauteng Medical Command of the South African Military Health Service. Participatory action research as a qualitative research design was- used. The intervention identification process was implemented as a problem-solving technique to direct the process of transformation-change. The research was conducted by a research group often social workers from the South African National Defence Force. The results of the research were the implementation of interventions on identified systems, namely the service delivery system and the performance management system of the Social Work Department of Gauteng Medical Command. The use of particpatorv action research as a process to address problems in an organisation was confirmed. The contribution of the participatory action process to process outcomes, such as empowerment and learning, was also indicated in the findings. / Social Work / MA(SS) (Mental Health) Ecosystemic perspective Ecological approach Learning organisations Participatory action research Intervention identification process Transformation Change South African National Defence Force 361.968 Human services -- Research Action research Medical care -- Research -- Methodology Adjustment (Psychology) Public welfare -- South Africa Social service -- South Africa Social change -- South Africa Participant observation Community development -- South Africa National Defence Force (South Africa)
294	Narrative reflections on charismatic discursive practices Christodoulou, Esther 30 November 2003 (has links) The purpose for this research journey was twofold: (1) to discover the power of certain discourses in the charismatic church context and (2) to challenge disrespectful discursive practices in order to co-operate respectful, ethical and caring ways of being. Seven leaders in charismatic churches committed themselves to this qualitative research project. The research process resulted in a confirmation by the participants that some charismatic discursive practices can be abusive and also to the acknowledgement that they too have at times fulfilled the role of abuser, even in unknowingly. This research journey ended in Hope. Hope for more transparency and trust between leaders and members, resulting in more respectful practices. / Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology / M.Th. (Pastoral Therapy) Faith Divine healing Pastoral therapy Narrative hermeneutic Practical theology Postmodern theology Charismatic Abusive practices Discursive practices Postmodern Participatory action research Qualitative research Narrative research Social construction Power and knowledge Gifts of the Holy Spirit Prophecy Abusers Survivors Jezebel Confidentiality Accountability Transparency 253.508828994 Pastoral counseling Narrative therapy Participant observation Gifts, Spiritual -- Pentecostal churches Spiritual healing Discursive psychology
295	Storying widowhood in Shona culture Shumbamhini, Mercy 30 June 2005 (has links) A group of four widows undertook this research journey with me. They reflected on their widowhood experiences. Narrative and participatory practices guided our conversations. Participatory, contextual, postmodern, liberational feminist theology, poststructuralism and the social construction theory of reality informed this work. Reflective and summarising letters after each group meeting played a central part in the research. The letters were structured to make visible the "taken-for-granted" which informed the widows about who and what they are. The alternative stories of preferred widowhood practices that emerged during and between sessions were centralised in the letters. Elements of transformation, hope and empowerment surfaced as counter stories to the culture of oppression, providing the scaffolding for re-storying their lives. The group formed Chiedza Widows Association in order to support other widows who are still marginalised. / Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology / (M.Th - Specialisation Pastoral Therapy)) Widowhood Shona culture Participatory approach to theology Deconstructing cultural practices Participatory action research Inheritance Pastoral care Community of care Widows' ritual Narrative pastoral practices Church work with widows -- Zimbabwe Widows -- Pastoral counseling of
296	The subversion of patriarchy: exploring pastoral care with men in the Church of the Province of South Africa on the East Rand Bannerman, David Hugh 30 November 2007 (has links) This dissertation is concerned with pastoral care with men in the Anglican Church. It is grounded in the rapidly changing post-apartheid years in the East Rand region of South Africa. It seeks to explore through participatory action research the negative effects of patriarchy as a discourse of power and entitlement on the lives of men of differing cultures in South Africa as victims and perpetrators of abuse. It also seeks to explore ways of pastorally caring with men through the creation of participative care groups that enable personal stories of men to be told, invitations to responsibility for abuse made, and the negative effects of patriarchal cultural and theological discourse deconstructed, and alternate understandings of masculinity constructed and performed. The work is done from a contextual theology, pro-feminist perspective, and collaborating with postmodern philosophers Derrida and Foucault, the social anthropologist Bruner and the narrative therapists White, Epston and Jenkins. / Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology / M. Th. (Practical Theology, Specialisation in Pastoral Therapy Epston and Jenkins White Bruner Discourse Power Entitlement Abuse Responsibility Masculinity Contextual theology Narrative therapy Pro-feminist Participatory action research Reconstruction Derrida Foucault Patriarchy Anglican Church Post-apartheid South Africa Pastoral care 259.08828368 Narrative therapy -- South Africa
297	A pastoral response to some of the challenges of reconciliation in South Africa following on from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Hess, Shena Bridgid 30 November 2006 (has links) This work is concerned with healing practices that are created within a participatory framework in pastoral theology. It works in post-colonial and postapartheid times in South Africa following on from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The thesis looks to forms of participation with both victims and perpetrators of apartheid. It seeks to challenge singular identities of victims and perpetrators, whites and blacks, which are bound up in juridical practices that are embedded within binary forms of identity. It exposes some of the problems associated with the splitting of a subject from an object of enquiry. The research concerns a journey with a group of Mothers who lost their sons and husbands to the violence of the apartheid state. It is also a journey with some of the perpetrators who were responsible for the elimination of these men. It seeks to deconstruct identity in order to find alternate descriptions of people, both the victims and perpetrators that are not constructed within a binary oppositional form. This is worked with ideas from the social construction movement particularly ideas relating to relational responsibility. The research attempts to create a safe enough context for accountability, vulnerability and healing to take place within a participatory frame of pastoral care. It works with post-modern theology and some of the philosophy of Derrida, Foucault and Levinas. / Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology / D.Th.(Practical Theology with specialisation in Pastoral Therapy) Levinas Foucault Derrida Social construction Post-structural philosophy Vulnerability Relational responsibility Binary forms of identity Participatory action research Truth and Reconciliation Commission Post-apartheid South Africa Theology Pastoral care 261.70968 Religion and politics -- South Africa Pastoral care -- South Africa
298	Participatory action research project to improve sustainability at an international school in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Milstein, Shelley Reinette 30 November 2005 (has links) Participatory Action Research (PAR) was carried out to improve educational practices and environmental sustainability in an International School in Vietnam by undertaking two cycles of PAR to determine how the school community could use paper on a more sustainable basis. The methodology included sorting paper and encouraging the reuse of paper. Practices related to computer printing, report writing and newsletter production were also investigated. Changes in the school community, in terms of accepting responsibility and demonstrating changed attitudes and behaviours, were measured. The school community demonstrated greater awareness, increased responsibility and more action competence. Critical awareness of unsustainable practices increased. Individuals were able to effect change, but it is recommended that such actions should be institutionalised for such changes to be sustainable. Limitations and recommendations emphasise the need for continuing PAR to implement sustainability. / Educational Studies / M. Ed. (Environmental Education) Action competence Participatory action research Vietnam International School Reuse paper Recycle paper Sustainability Attitudes Behaviour Environmental policy 363.728209597 Schools -- Vietnam -- Ho Chi Minh City
299	Combating gender stereotyping in the science and technology classrooms of a primary school Van der Merwe-Muller, Lorna 11 1900 (has links) Gender stereotyping is a phenomenon found in all spheres of life. School children often have to bear the brunt of these prescribed roles and stereotypes. This study includes a literature review of the characteristics of a professional educator as well as the theoretical background on gender issues. It employed Participatory Action Research as a strategy with the aim to empower teachers to improve their classroom practice, and ultimately, to improve the teaching-learning dynamics for learners in the science and technology classrooms. The participants, who are science and technology teachers, are vastly different people whose one common goal it was to empower themselves and to change their classroom practice on a continuous basis. The study looks at some of the beliefs these teachers now hold after the intervention for promoting gender equality in the classroom. Science and technology are the domains of historically male-dominated fields, and by means of this study I aim to equalise the learning opportunities for both boys and girls. / Comparative Education / M. Ed. (Comparative Education) Stereotypes Gender roles Gender equality Classroom environment Value transmission Gender Combating gender stereotyping Science and technology as subjects Classrooms and schools Participatory action research 372.350968 Sexism in education -- South Africa Gender identity -- South Africa
300	Culture as a project: design, self-determination and identity assertion in indigenous communities Leitão, Renata Marques 04 1900 (has links) No description available. Social design indigenous cultures social innovation empowerment self-representation participatory action research Atikamekw Nation visual symbols self-determination graphic design cultures autochtones innovation sociale autoreprésentation recherche-action participative iconographie autodétermination design graphique design social Nation Atikamekw

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