"Okokuqala ngokuya ndandiqala kwakungekho easy": Feeling empowered to take collective action through community engagement.
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| Title: | "Okokuqala ngokuya ndandiqala kwakungekho easy": Feeling empowered to take collective action through community engagement. |
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| Authors: | Bobo, Benita, Akhurst, Jacqueline |
| Source: | Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology. Mar2023, Vol. 33 Issue 2, p425-435. 11p. |
| Subjects: | Focus groups, Health risk assessment, Social change, Leadership, Self-evaluation, Community support, Community health services, Cooperativeness, Social justice, Interviewing, Socioeconomic factors, Interprofessional relations, Information resources, Research funding, Intellect, Judgment sampling, Thematic analysis |
| Abstract: | Community engagement (CE) at Rhodes University (RU) and community psychology draw on similar principles: using an asset‐based community development approach; recognising and drawing on the skills, capabilities, and knowledge of all parties, which they contribute to a partnership. Working from a strategic model of engagement, mutuality is foreground in all CE activities, where both student volunteers and community partners jointly benefit from the engagement. This paper examines CE at RU and how CE principles are translated into practise, using Siyakhana@Makana (S@M) as a case study. In S@M, a 19‐week‐long volunteer programme, community partners and student volunteers are jointly involved in planning, executing, and evaluating CE activities together. This paper illustrates how being involved in such CE activities has enabled community partners to mobilise for effective change in their communities. Community partners reflect on how they have been empowered to taken on leadership roles, addressing local challenges in collaborative ways, while drawing on the skills and knowledge that they have gained through their engagements in S@M. This resonates with the social action model of community psychology, a participatory approach that seeks to mobilise people to bring about change in the contexts in which they live. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: | Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection |
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