Making the most of culture and context : sociocultural strengths and contextual vulnerability when eliciting indigenous resilience insights with remote South African elders and young people

dc.contributor.authorEbersohn, L. (Liesel)
dc.contributor.authorMalan-van Rooyen, Marlize
dc.contributor.emailliesel.ebersohn@up.ac.zaen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-13T08:07:31Z
dc.date.available2018-11-13T08:07:31Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractResearch aimed at generating evidence to address elicitation challenges that arise because of extreme inequality and marginalized perspectives requires deliberation on relevant methodologies that can elicit insights by both revering marginalized sociocultural strengths and being sensitive to power imbalances. In this article, we provide examples of participatory methods that make the most of often silenced non-Western sociocultural strengths and create opportunities for participation despite barriers due to inequality. The examples emerged from multiple researcher journals and visual data from a study that documented indigenous psychology on resilience with elders (n ¼ 24; male ¼ 10, female ¼ 14) and young people (n ¼ 48; male ¼ 21, female ¼ 27) in two remote Southern African border communities. We describe the examples of elicitation methods to make the most of culture using (i) symbols that reflect nonmainstream sociocultural perspectives, (ii) familiar multiliteracies, (iii) a variety of spoken languages, and (iv) familiar collectivist modes, as well as contextual characteristics to (i) equalize opportunity given structural disparity, (ii) equalize power, and (iii) honor gender and age hierarchies. We conclude that methods for indigenous research can honor and leverage marginalized cultures and contexts to extend beyond sympathy for an oppressed worldview or a context of deprivation.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentEducational Psychologyen_ZA
dc.description.librarianam2018en_ZA
dc.description.librarian2025dzm
dc.description.urihttp://journals.sagepub.com/home/ijqen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationEbersohn, L. & Malan-Van Rooyen, M. 2018, 'Making the most of culture and context : sociocultural strengths and contextual vulnerability when eliciting indigenous resilience insights with remote South African elders and young people', International Journal of Qualitative Methods, vol. 17, pp. 1-21.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1609-4069 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1177/1609406918798434
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/67242
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherSAGE Publicationsen_ZA
dc.rights© The Author(s) 2018. Creative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).en_ZA
dc.subjectCase studyen_ZA
dc.subjectCommunity-based researchen_ZA
dc.subjectEmancipatory researchen_ZA
dc.subjectGrounded theoryen_ZA
dc.subjectInterpretive descriptionen_ZA
dc.subject.otherEducation articles SDG-03
dc.subject.otherSDG-03: Good health and well-being
dc.subject.otherEducation articles SDG-04
dc.subject.otherSDG-04: Quality education
dc.subject.otherEducation articles SDG-10
dc.subject.otherSDG-10: Reduced inequalities
dc.subject.otherEducation articles SDG-11
dc.subject.otherSDG-11: Sustainable cities and communities
dc.subject.otherEducation articles SDG-16
dc.subject.otherSDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions
dc.titleMaking the most of culture and context : sociocultural strengths and contextual vulnerability when eliciting indigenous resilience insights with remote South African elders and young peopleen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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