Community-based participatory video: exploring and advocating for girls' resilience
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Date
2015
Authors
Jefferis, Tamlynn C.
Theron, Linda C.
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Publisher
Faculty of Education, University of the Free State
Abstract
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 article is to reflect critically on
the use of community-based participatory video (CBPV) to understand and promote
resilience processes in 28 black South African adolescent girls. The girls, aged from13
to19 years, were recruited by social workers and teachers collaborating with the South
African Pathways to Resilience Project. The findings suggest that CBPV does champion
participant-directed understandings of resilience. However, the findings also draw
attention to the difficulties of realising the potential of the social change inherent in
CBPV, and the complexity of stimulating deep reflection in the girl participants.
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Keywords
Black girls, Participatory research, Positive adjustment, School-going
Citation
Jefferis, T. C., & Theron, L. C. (2015). Community-based participatory video: exploring and advocating for girls' resilience. Perspectives in Education, 33(4), 75-91.