Naydene De Lange
Biographic Data
| ID | 249769 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Naydene De Lange |
| GIVEN NAMES | Naydene |
| FAMILY NAME | De Lange |
| SIGNATURE | DE LANGE N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nelson Mandela University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5660-6317 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 154 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Staying with the trouble ”: Participatory visual research as transformative learning with young women
Community-Based Participatory Video and Social Action
Using tableaus to explore teachers’ perceptions of how unequal power relations contribute to the spread of HIV and Aids
The article explores pre-and in-service teachers' perceptions of how unequal power relations contribute towards the spread of HIV and AIDS. The sample, consisting of 19 teachers; 6 pre-service teachers from a Higher Education Institution and 13 in-service teachers from a rural primary school shared their views, through the use of tableaus, on how power relations between males and females contributed towards HIV and AIDS.The findings, emerging fro…
Everything is written there; there should be something that is going to follow”: A girlfesto as a strategy for girl-led activism in rural communities
This article reports on the work of a group of young African women teachers from rural South Africa who worked with a Girlfesto that focuses on addressing gender-based violence (GBV). An international group of girls and women who had come together for the Circles within Circles retreat in Montebello, Canada, developed the Girlfesto. Using the lens of girl activism in the context of policy dialogue, we offer an analysis of the young women teachers…
I'm me and that is enough”: Reconfiguring the family photo album to explore gender constructions with Foundation Phase preservice teachers
Zimbabwean secondary school Guidance and Counseling teachers teaching sexuality education in the HIV and Aids education curriculum
In spite of the importance of sexuality education and HIV and AIDS education in preventing HIV infections, Zimbabwean secondary school Guidance and Counseling teachers are not engaging optimally with the current Guidance and Counseling, HIV and AIDS & Life Skills education curriculum, and hence, they are not serving the needs of the learners in the context of the HIV and AIDS pandemic. The aim of the study, therefore, was to explore how Guidance …
Quality Education for All Using a Generic Mentoring Framework
At the onset of reformation and conciliation in 1994, various interventions were implemented by the South African government to ensure the reparation of learner outcomes and throughput. The Department of Basic Education has, however, failed innumerable times to achieve their set educational outcomes. Thus, educational stakeholders, opinion leaders, and researchers perceive the quality of education in South Africa to be appalling, as schooling sys…
Participatory Visual Methodologies: Social Change, Community and Policy
Technologies of Nonviolence: Ethical Participatory Visual Research with Girls
Rapid developments in digital technologies have sparked revolutionary shifts in participatory research. Emerging tools such as digital stories and cellphilms offer participants opportunities to engage actively in research and to produce media about their everyday lives. Yet, while these may enable such engagement, researchers need to ensure that the very tools meant as technologies of nonviolence are not in and of themselves violent. This article…
Community health workers as cultural producers in addressing gender-based violence in rural South Africa
South Africa has been experiencing an epidemic of gender-based violence (GBV) for a long time and in some rural communities health workers, who are trained to care for those infected with HIV, are positioned at the forefront of addressing this problem, often without the necessary support. In this article, we pose the question: How might cultural production through media making with community health workers (CHWs) contribute to taking action to ad…
I want to be a hope champion!’ – Research as hope intervention with rural South African children
This study explored how visual participatory research-as-intervention enabled a strengthening of hope among a group of South African primary school children. Twelve learners aged 9–13 years from a rural village in the QwaQwa region of South Africa participated in the study. Data on the children’s experiences of hope were co-constructed with them, applying various visual participatory approaches, while data on their engagement in the research itse…
Creating Dialogue on Inclusion in Vietnam: Girls with Disabilities Exhibit their Work
Me and my cellphone: Constructing change from the inside through cellphilms and participatory video in a rural community
Drawing on fieldwork with rural teachers in S outh A frica, this article highlights the significance of cellphone technology in participatory video and its potential to alter the research environment. To date much of the work in the area of participatory visual methodologies (including participatory video) and particularly in the context of working with marginalized communities, has relied on researcher‐led projects wherein it is the research tea…
Interventions that address sexual violence against girls and young women: Mapping the issues
This issue of Agenda takes forward many of the concerns raised in the Gender-based Violence ‘Trilogy’ (Domestic Violence, Agenda, 19 (66); Trafficking, Agenda, 20 (70); Rape, Agenda 21 (74)) and a
Girl-led strategies to address campus safety: Creating action briefs for dialogue with policy makers
In exploring gender activism with girls and young women in South Africa, we take up, in this visual essay, the activism practices and strategies of a group of 14 young women with whom we have been
Engaging girls with disabilities in Vietnam: Making their voices count
This article addresses a theoretical and methodological intervention in support of inclusion for girls with disabilities in Vietnam. Drawing on an internationally collaborative project, Monitoring Educational Rights for Girls with Disabilities in Vietnamese schools, we critically engage the politics of inclusion and exclusion of girls with disabilities in education. Using a critical methodological framework that foregrounds the lived experiences …
Building a future without gender violence: Rural teachers and youth in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, leading community dialogue
This article advances the idea that rural youth and teachers are the key in leading community dialogue towards addressing gender-based violence (GBV) in their community through their film making. The youth voices on the realities of GBV in their school and community, in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, captured through the process of participatory video, are used to engage a group of their teachers in thinking about addressing GBV in the school…
Listening with our eyes: Collaboration and HIV and Aids curriculum integration in South African higher education
Integrating HIV and AIDS into the academic curriculum is not engaged with vigorously enough in South African higher education institutions, for several reasons, ranging from lack of interest to complaints of belabouring the issue of HIV and AIDS, especially from the biomedical perspective. Through such integration the academic curriculum could be a key space and engine for persuading change and abating the effects of HIV and AIDS in higher educat…
Understanding gender, sexuality and HIV risk in HEIs: Narratives of International Post-Graduate Students
Thirty years into the HIV&AIDS pandemic, the world is still striving to reduce new HIV infections and halve AIDS related deaths by 2015. However, sub-Saharan Africa still faces the burden of HIV infections as governments and private institutions try out different prevention strategies (UNAIDS 2011). Several scholars have argued that multiple concurrent sexual partnerships (MCSP) pose the greatest risk for new HIV infections. Furthermore, research…
Using participatory and visual arts-based methodologies to promote sustainable teaching and learning ecologies: Through the Eyes of Pre- Service Teachers
The National Framework for Quality Education in Rural Areas (DoE, 2006) draws attention to education in rural ecologies and scrutinises the role of HEIs in developing teachers who understand the diverse contexts and who are able to facilitate quality teaching and learning in such contexts. Drawing from the project 'New teachers for new times: Visual methodologies for social change in rural education in the age of AIDS', this article explores how …
Handbook of Participatory Video
Participatory video is a growing area of research and an increasingly popular tool among practitioners, researchers, and NGOs working with communities around the world. The Handbook of Participatory Video advances the field, engaging critically with it as a research methodology and method and interrogating assumptions about its emancipatory nature and potential for social change. In twenty-eight chapters, contributors examine historical, ethical,…
Voices of women teachers about gender inequalities and gender-based violence in rural South Africa
Gender-based violence is a reality in many societies and is linked to the spread of HIV and AIDS. There have been numerous studies that have attempted to acquire an understanding of the breadth and depth of the issues around gender-based violence. However, one area that has received scant attention is the voices of women teachers. Thus, in this article, drawing on qualitative research and focus group interviews, we explore the voices of women tea…
Community Health Workers Working the Digital Archive: A Case for Looking at Participatory Archiving in Studying Stigma in the Context of HIV and Aids
Addressing the issue of HIV-stigma is recognised as essential to reducing the spread of HIV and AIDS, enabling community members to access prevention, treatment and care. Often the very people who are able to contribute to solving the problem, are marginalised and do not see ways to insert themselves into dialogues related to combating stigma. Community health workers in rural South Africa are one such group. At the heart of the research discusse…
Researching to make a difference: Possibilities for social science research in the age of Aids
HIV and AIDS is recognized as one of the most devastating pandemics of sub-Saharan Africa, and South Africa in particular, with adverse effect on individuals, families, schools, communities and society at large. Research is therefore required to provide a deeper understanding of the complexities of HIV and AIDS in order to mitigate the effect of the pandemic. Much of the excellent research that has been done has been undertaken within a positivis…
More than a decade of addressing HIV and Aids in education in South Africa
Handbook of Participatory Video
Participatory video is a growing area of research and an increasingly popular tool among practitioners, researchers, and NGOs working with communities around the world. The Handbook of Participatory Video advances the field, engaging critically with it as a research methodology and method and interrogating assumptions about its emancipatory nature and potential for social change. In twenty-eight chapters, contributors examine historical, ethical,…
What can a woman do with a camera? Turning the female gaze on poverty and HIV and Aids in rural South Africa
This article explores the use of participatory video in finding solutions to challenges faced by schools and communities in the contexts of poverty and the AIDS pandemic in one rural community in KwaZulu‐Natal, South Africa. Locating the analysis within the study of feminist visual culture and the notion of the female gaze, the article focuses on a close reading of the production of a three‐minute video produced by women participating in a projec…
Engaging girls with disabilities in Vietnam: Making their voices count
This article addresses a theoretical and methodological intervention in support of inclusion for girls with disabilities in Vietnam. Drawing on an internationally collaborative project, Monitoring Educational Rights for Girls with Disabilities in Vietnamese schools, we critically engage the politics of inclusion and exclusion of girls with disabilities in education. Using a critical methodological framework that foregrounds the lived experiences …
Giving a face to HIV and Aids: On the uses of photo-voice by teachers and community health care workers working with youth in rural South Africa
This paper focuses on an ongoing project in rural South Africa involving teachers and community health workers addressing their work with youth and HIV and AIDS. It outlines a photo-voice component of the project, highlighting in particular the design features of setting up such a project, and in particular addresses five emerging issues in visual methodologies: technical concerns, interpretation, ethical concerns, documentation and taking action…
Girl-led strategies to address campus safety: Creating action briefs for dialogue with policy makers
In exploring gender activism with girls and young women in South Africa, we take up, in this visual essay, the activism practices and strategies of a group of 14 young women with whom we have been
Voices of women teachers about gender inequalities and gender-based violence in rural South Africa
Gender-based violence is a reality in many societies and is linked to the spread of HIV and AIDS. There have been numerous studies that have attempted to acquire an understanding of the breadth and depth of the issues around gender-based violence. However, one area that has received scant attention is the voices of women teachers. Thus, in this article, drawing on qualitative research and focus group interviews, we explore the voices of women tea…
Me and my cellphone: Constructing change from the inside through cellphilms and participatory video in a rural community
Drawing on fieldwork with rural teachers in S outh A frica, this article highlights the significance of cellphone technology in participatory video and its potential to alter the research environment. To date much of the work in the area of participatory visual methodologies (including participatory video) and particularly in the context of working with marginalized communities, has relied on researcher‐led projects wherein it is the research tea…
Technologies of Nonviolence: Ethical Participatory Visual Research with Girls
Rapid developments in digital technologies have sparked revolutionary shifts in participatory research. Emerging tools such as digital stories and cellphilms offer participants opportunities to engage actively in research and to produce media about their everyday lives. Yet, while these may enable such engagement, researchers need to ensure that the very tools meant as technologies of nonviolence are not in and of themselves violent. This article…
Building a future without gender violence: Rural teachers and youth in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, leading community dialogue
This article advances the idea that rural youth and teachers are the key in leading community dialogue towards addressing gender-based violence (GBV) in their community through their film making. The youth voices on the realities of GBV in their school and community, in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, captured through the process of participatory video, are used to engage a group of their teachers in thinking about addressing GBV in the school…
Youth voices about sex and Aids: Implications for life skills education through the ‘Learning Together’ project in KwaZulu‐Natal, South Africa
This paper focuses on youth voices about sex and AIDS and reveals significant discrepancies between the ‘ideal adult worldview’ and the ‘practical youth worldview’ on sexual matters. In discussing the ‘youth worldview’, it draws on Piaget’s theories of childhood development and Perry’s theory of student development, both theories which postulate that children cannot learn material if they have not reached a particular level of development. It con…
Researching to make a difference: Possibilities for social science research in the age of Aids
HIV and AIDS is recognized as one of the most devastating pandemics of sub-Saharan Africa, and South Africa in particular, with adverse effect on individuals, families, schools, communities and society at large. Research is therefore required to provide a deeper understanding of the complexities of HIV and AIDS in order to mitigate the effect of the pandemic. Much of the excellent research that has been done has been undertaken within a positivis…
Interventions that address sexual violence against girls and young women: Mapping the issues
This issue of Agenda takes forward many of the concerns raised in the Gender-based Violence ‘Trilogy’ (Domestic Violence, Agenda, 19 (66); Trafficking, Agenda, 20 (70); Rape, Agenda 21 (74)) and a
Creating Dialogue on Inclusion in Vietnam: Girls with Disabilities Exhibit their Work
I'm me and that is enough”: Reconfiguring the family photo album to explore gender constructions with Foundation Phase preservice teachers
Zimbabwean secondary school Guidance and Counseling teachers teaching sexuality education in the HIV and Aids education curriculum
In spite of the importance of sexuality education and HIV and AIDS education in preventing HIV infections, Zimbabwean secondary school Guidance and Counseling teachers are not engaging optimally with the current Guidance and Counseling, HIV and AIDS & Life Skills education curriculum, and hence, they are not serving the needs of the learners in the context of the HIV and AIDS pandemic. The aim of the study, therefore, was to explore how Guidance …
Community Health Workers Working the Digital Archive: A Case for Looking at Participatory Archiving in Studying Stigma in the Context of HIV and Aids
Addressing the issue of HIV-stigma is recognised as essential to reducing the spread of HIV and AIDS, enabling community members to access prevention, treatment and care. Often the very people who are able to contribute to solving the problem, are marginalised and do not see ways to insert themselves into dialogues related to combating stigma. Community health workers in rural South Africa are one such group. At the heart of the research discusse…
Exploring the Self-Concept of the South African Adolescent Male Suffering from Tourette's Syndrome
Tourette's Syndrome (TS) is regarded as a lifelong spectrum syndrome which is found world wide, across all geographical, ethnic and cultural barriers, and which is more prevalent amongst males. The Afrikaner population of South Africa, however, with its relatively small genetic pool, provide interesting research findings. This genetic disorder disturbs the chemical balance in the brain, causing primary motor and vocal tics, as well as secondary a…
The Communication and Relationships of Black South African Young Women Terminating their Pregnancies
This article presents the findings of research undertaken to explore and describe the communication and relationships of Black South African young women terminating their pregnancies. Data were collected during individual narrative interviews with nineteen young women who presented themselves for abortions at two hospitals in the Port Elizabeth-Uitenhage area. The transcribed interviews were analysed through descriptive analysis. From the results…
Mothers' Experiences of Aggression in Their Tourette's Syndrome Children
Emerging religious identities of female Indian adolescents in post-apartheid South Africa and its role as change agent
The Indian citizens of South Africa are a minority group which maintains a rich and varied culture to which most of them strictly adhere. Many young Indian women attend higher education institutions and aspire to a career life, which might be in conflict with a woman's role in Indian tradition, religion and culture. In post-apartheid South Africa many Indian women are assuming new roles and religious identities. The research examined the nature o…
What do we Know about the Perception Educators Have of HIV/Aids and its Impact on the Holistic Development of Adolescent Learners
HIV/AIDS is part of the South African reality to such an extent that more than half the children admitted to South Africa's second largest hospital are HIV-positive or have full-blown AIDS. This has implications for the education sector, as HIV/AIDS has also infiltrated and affected schools and education institutions and calls for the role of the educator to exceed that of teaching. It is now more than ever necessary that educators pay close atte…
Giving a face to HIV and Aids: On the uses of photo-voice by teachers and community health care workers working with youth in rural South Africa
This paper focuses on an ongoing project in rural South Africa involving teachers and community health workers addressing their work with youth and HIV and AIDS. It outlines a photo-voice component of the project, highlighting in particular the design features of setting up such a project, and in particular addresses five emerging issues in visual methodologies: technical concerns, interpretation, ethical concerns, documentation and taking action…
Putting People in the Picture: Visual Methodologies for Social Change
Getting the picture, constructing (and deconstructing) the picture, finding the picture, viewing the picture, being in the picture, changing the pictures—these are all phrases that apply to the fascinating world of ‘putting people in the picture’ in visual research within the Social Sciences. Putting People in the Picture: Visual Methodologies for Social Change focuses on the ways in which researchers, practitioners and activists are using such t…
Youth voices about sex and Aids: Implications for life skills education through the ‘Learning Together’ project in KwaZulu‐Natal, South Africa
This paper focuses on youth voices about sex and AIDS and reveals significant discrepancies between the ‘ideal adult worldview’ and the ‘practical youth worldview’ on sexual matters. In discussing the ‘youth worldview’, it draws on Piaget’s theories of childhood development and Perry’s theory of student development, both theories which postulate that children cannot learn material if they have not reached a particular level of development. It con…
Visual Participatory Approaches to HIV and Aids Research as Intervention in a Rural Community Setting
This article presents visual participatory approaches as a way to address HIV and AIDS in a rural South African setting. The article suggests that visual imaging has merit for supporting HIV and AIDS intervention with learners, teachers, community health care workers and parents in a community ravaged by the pandemic. It also presents a summary of findings from a three year project in which visual imaging was applied as research as intervention, …
Women and community-based video: Communicating in the age of Aids
This article focuses on work1 with a group of female community health care workers and parents (including one male) in a rural community, aimed at addressing issues around HIV/AIDS through community-based video. Drawing on feminist visual culture and using a participatory methodology, such as video documentary, creates a space for dynamic interaction on topics that have often been kept silent in rural Southern African communities ravaged by HIV/A…
What can a woman do with a camera? Turning the female gaze on poverty and HIV and Aids in rural South Africa
This article explores the use of participatory video in finding solutions to challenges faced by schools and communities in the contexts of poverty and the AIDS pandemic in one rural community in KwaZulu‐Natal, South Africa. Locating the analysis within the study of feminist visual culture and the notion of the female gaze, the article focuses on a close reading of the production of a three‐minute video produced by women participating in a projec…
Community-Based Participatory Video and Social Action in Rural South Africa
Handbook of Participatory Video
Participatory video is a growing area of research and an increasingly popular tool among practitioners, researchers, and NGOs working with communities around the world. The Handbook of Participatory Video advances the field, engaging critically with it as a research methodology and method and interrogating assumptions about its emancipatory nature and potential for social change. In twenty-eight chapters, contributors examine historical, ethical,…
Voices of women teachers about gender inequalities and gender-based violence in rural South Africa
Gender-based violence is a reality in many societies and is linked to the spread of HIV and AIDS. There have been numerous studies that have attempted to acquire an understanding of the breadth and depth of the issues around gender-based violence. However, one area that has received scant attention is the voices of women teachers. Thus, in this article, drawing on qualitative research and focus group interviews, we explore the voices of women tea…
Community Health Workers Working the Digital Archive: A Case for Looking at Participatory Archiving in Studying Stigma in the Context of HIV and Aids
Addressing the issue of HIV-stigma is recognised as essential to reducing the spread of HIV and AIDS, enabling community members to access prevention, treatment and care. Often the very people who are able to contribute to solving the problem, are marginalised and do not see ways to insert themselves into dialogues related to combating stigma. Community health workers in rural South Africa are one such group. At the heart of the research discusse…
Researching to make a difference: Possibilities for social science research in the age of Aids
HIV and AIDS is recognized as one of the most devastating pandemics of sub-Saharan Africa, and South Africa in particular, with adverse effect on individuals, families, schools, communities and society at large. Research is therefore required to provide a deeper understanding of the complexities of HIV and AIDS in order to mitigate the effect of the pandemic. Much of the excellent research that has been done has been undertaken within a positivis…
More than a decade of addressing HIV and Aids in education in South Africa
Understanding gender, sexuality and HIV risk in HEIs: Narratives of International Post-Graduate Students
Thirty years into the HIV&AIDS pandemic, the world is still striving to reduce new HIV infections and halve AIDS related deaths by 2015. However, sub-Saharan Africa still faces the burden of HIV infections as governments and private institutions try out different prevention strategies (UNAIDS 2011). Several scholars have argued that multiple concurrent sexual partnerships (MCSP) pose the greatest risk for new HIV infections. Furthermore, research…
Using participatory and visual arts-based methodologies to promote sustainable teaching and learning ecologies: Through the Eyes of Pre- Service Teachers
The National Framework for Quality Education in Rural Areas (DoE, 2006) draws attention to education in rural ecologies and scrutinises the role of HEIs in developing teachers who understand the diverse contexts and who are able to facilitate quality teaching and learning in such contexts. Drawing from the project 'New teachers for new times: Visual methodologies for social change in rural education in the age of AIDS', this article explores how …
Building a future without gender violence: Rural teachers and youth in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, leading community dialogue
This article advances the idea that rural youth and teachers are the key in leading community dialogue towards addressing gender-based violence (GBV) in their community through their film making. The youth voices on the realities of GBV in their school and community, in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, captured through the process of participatory video, are used to engage a group of their teachers in thinking about addressing GBV in the school…
Listening with our eyes: Collaboration and HIV and Aids curriculum integration in South African higher education
Integrating HIV and AIDS into the academic curriculum is not engaged with vigorously enough in South African higher education institutions, for several reasons, ranging from lack of interest to complaints of belabouring the issue of HIV and AIDS, especially from the biomedical perspective. Through such integration the academic curriculum could be a key space and engine for persuading change and abating the effects of HIV and AIDS in higher educat…
Interventions that address sexual violence against girls and young women: Mapping the issues
This issue of Agenda takes forward many of the concerns raised in the Gender-based Violence ‘Trilogy’ (Domestic Violence, Agenda, 19 (66); Trafficking, Agenda, 20 (70); Rape, Agenda 21 (74)) and a
Girl-led strategies to address campus safety: Creating action briefs for dialogue with policy makers
In exploring gender activism with girls and young women in South Africa, we take up, in this visual essay, the activism practices and strategies of a group of 14 young women with whom we have been
Engaging girls with disabilities in Vietnam: Making their voices count
This article addresses a theoretical and methodological intervention in support of inclusion for girls with disabilities in Vietnam. Drawing on an internationally collaborative project, Monitoring Educational Rights for Girls with Disabilities in Vietnamese schools, we critically engage the politics of inclusion and exclusion of girls with disabilities in education. Using a critical methodological framework that foregrounds the lived experiences …
Community health workers as cultural producers in addressing gender-based violence in rural South Africa
South Africa has been experiencing an epidemic of gender-based violence (GBV) for a long time and in some rural communities health workers, who are trained to care for those infected with HIV, are positioned at the forefront of addressing this problem, often without the necessary support. In this article, we pose the question: How might cultural production through media making with community health workers (CHWs) contribute to taking action to ad…
Sociology (32 works) · Psychology (23 works) · Political science (22 works) · Citizen journalism (19 works) · Participatory Visual Research Methods (17 works) · Medicine (15 works) · Participatory action research (15 works) · Gender Studies (13 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · Pedagogy (12 works)