Avivit Cherrington
Biographic Data
| ID | 3791706 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Avivit Cherrington |
| GIVEN NAMES | Avivit |
| FAMILY NAME | Cherrington |
| SIGNATURE | CHERRINGTON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pretoria |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Positioning a practice of hope in South African teacher education programmes
Schools are described as ideal settings for nurturing and fostering children's hopes, and the teaching profession as rooted in hopefulness. However, there is a paucity of research linking hope theory and teacher education in the South African context. Using evidence from my own transformative, visual participatory research with rural South African children on hope and well-being, I argue in this position paper that hope theory, in particular an A…
Adolescents' Views on the Power of Violence in a Rural School in South Africa
This study aims to explain how adolescents in a rural high school conceptualise school violence. Qualitative data were collected over two two-day periods (24 hours) through child-centred tasks like drawing and the completion of open-ended sentences, informal conversations regarding the given activities, observations documented as visual data (photographs), a research journal, and focus group discussions. In total, four boys and five girls partici…
Adolescents' Views on the Power of Violence in a Rural School in South Africa
This study aims to explain how adolescents in a rural high school conceptualise school violence. Qualitative data were collected over two two-day periods (24 hours) through child-centred tasks like drawing and the completion of open-ended sentences, informal conversations regarding the given activities, observations documented as visual data (photographs), a research journal, and focus group discussions. In total, four boys and five girls partici…
Positioning a practice of hope in South African teacher education programmes
Schools are described as ideal settings for nurturing and fostering children's hopes, and the teaching profession as rooted in hopefulness. However, there is a paucity of research linking hope theory and teacher education in the South African context. Using evidence from my own transformative, visual participatory research with rural South African children on hope and well-being, I argue in this position paper that hope theory, in particular an A…
Adolescents' Views on the Power of Violence in a Rural School in South Africa
This study aims to explain how adolescents in a rural high school conceptualise school violence. Qualitative data were collected over two two-day periods (24 hours) through child-centred tasks like drawing and the completion of open-ended sentences, informal conversations regarding the given activities, observations documented as visual data (photographs), a research journal, and focus group discussions. In total, four boys and five girls partici…
Positioning a practice of hope in South African teacher education programmes
Schools are described as ideal settings for nurturing and fostering children's hopes, and the teaching profession as rooted in hopefulness. However, there is a paucity of research linking hope theory and teacher education in the South African context. Using evidence from my own transformative, visual participatory research with rural South African children on hope and well-being, I argue in this position paper that hope theory, in particular an A…
Sociology (2 works) · Aggression (1 work) · Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression (1 work) · Child Abuse and Trauma (1 work) · Children's Rights and Participation (1 work) · Critical and Liberation Pedagogy (1 work) · Developmental psychology (1 work) · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms (1 work) · Focus group (1 work) · Harm (1 work)