PiE 2015 Volume 33 Issue 4
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Digitising and archiving HIV and AIDS in South Africa: the Museum of AIDS in Africa as an archival intervention
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2015)The AIDS epidemic in South Africa has demanded interventions from a number of different forums. Drawing on theory relating to the archive in post-apartheid South Africa and data from the online archive from the Museum ... -
From spaces of sexual violence to sites of networked resistance: re-imagining mobile and social media technologies
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2015)To date, much of the work on mobile and social media in the context of sexual violence has focused on its threats and harmful effects, particularly in relation to cyber-bullying and other forms of online harassment. But ... -
Young people being literate in a digital space: what can textspeak tell us?
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2015)Recognising the challenge facing many young South Africans in accessing affordable, appropriate reading material and content, the FunDza Literacy Trust produces texts, including novels, short stories, poetry, and non-fiction ... -
Digital storytelling: creating participatory space, addressing stigma, and enabling agency
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2015)This article explores using digital storytelling as community-based participatory research methodology with twelve secondary school learners in a rural community in South Africa who had experienced, witnessed, or heard ... -
The SenseCam as a research tool for exploring learner experiences in an urban classroom space
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2015)In this article I describe an ethnographic exploration into the daily school life of Grade 6 learners at an urban school that serves impoverished areas in Durban. The school is representative of the racial demographics ... -
From discomfort to collaboration: teachers screening cellphilms in a rural South African school
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2015)South Africa continues to contend with an HIV pandemic. Teachers have the potential to address prevention and treatment with their learners but they struggle to implement HIV and AIDS education. Cellphilm projects—using ... -
Community-based participatory video: exploring and advocating for girls' resilience
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2015)Resilience studies typically privilege the views and assumptions of minority-world research. One way to circumvent this is through methodologies that give voice to the experiences of majority-world youth. Our aim in this ... -
Connecting with pre-service teachers’ perspectives on the use of digital technologies and social media to teach socially relevant science
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2015)As an interdisciplinary team of educational researchers we explored pre-service science teachers’ perspectives on using digital technologies and social media to address socially relevant issues in science teaching. The ... -
Editorial: critical perspectives on digital spaces in educational research
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Seeing how it works: a visual essay about critical and transformative research in education
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2015)As visual researchers in the field of education we have initiated and completed numerous participatory projects using qualitative visual methods such as drawing, collage, photovoice, and participatory video, along with ...