The challenges of participation in doing community-based participatory action research
Lessons from the Kwithu Project
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6134693 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Guofang Li (0000-0002-5523-6892, City University of New York, corresponding author), Nathalis G Wamba (City University of New York) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 198-213 |
| Publication date | 2016-10-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Action Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1476-7503 • E-ISSN: 1741-2617 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1476750316636665 |
| OpenAlex | W2530258336 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 7 |
The Kwithu project started when a volunteer who joined Kwithu, a community-based organization in Mzuzu, Malawi (Africa), to teach English gave a diagnostic test to a random group of forty 7th and 8th graders (20 boys and 20 girls) and discovered that most of them could hardly read or write in English. The test results prompted Maureen, the Kwithu director and co-founder, the teacher and myself to meet with the headteachers of the three schools mostly attended by Kwithu children. The headteachers appreciated our concerns about the English proficiency of the children, but they advised us to focus on more urgent matters if we truly wanted to help, e.g., lack of teaching and learning materials, lack of running water in schools, hunger, teacher qualifications, etc. This advice shifted our initial inquiry goal—from English language teaching—to a community-based participatory action research project designed to address the school conditions in Luwinga. In this paper, I describe the community-based participatory action research inquiry and I reflect on the process of participation
Action (physics · Action research · Citizen journalism · English language · Focus group · Mathematics education · Medical education · Participatory action research · Pedagogy · Political science · Sociology · Test (biology · Children's Rights and Participation · Community Health and Development · Medicine · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |