participatory re-action: reflecting on a design-based research approach in ict4d
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Pa r t i c i pato r y re -a ct i on: ref l ect i ng on a Des i gn - Based Resea rch app roach i n I CT4D
Izak van Zyl, Sara Vannini
NewMinE Lab – Università della Svizzera italiana
November 2013
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Design-Based Research
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Design-Based Research
…is an emerging paradigm for the study of learning
in context through the systematic design and study
of instructional strategies and tools…
(DBR Collaborative, 2003)
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Design-Based Research
DBR can help create and extend knowledge about
developing, enacting, and sustaining innovative
learning environments.
(DBR Collaborative, 2003)
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Design-Based Research
deals with real-world settings
focuses on collaboration and participation
is characterised by iteration and flexibility
formative evaluations performed after each cycle
mixed methods
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Design-Based Research
deals with real-world settings
focuses on collaboration and participation
is characterised by iteration and flexibility
formative evaluations performed after each cycle
mixed methods
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Design-Based Research
deals with real-world settings
focuses on collaboration and participation
is characterised by iteration and flexibility
formative evaluations performed after each cycle
mixed methods
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Design-Based Research
deals with real-world settings
focuses on collaboration and participation
is characterised by iteration and flexibility
formative evaluations performed after each cycle
mixed methods
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Design-Based Research
deals with real-world settings
focuses on collaboration and participation
is characterised by iteration and flexibility
formative evaluations performed after each cycle
mixed methods
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ICT4D community
has gradually recognised
design-based and
contextualised approaches
Postcolonial computing
Situated computing
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ICT4D community
has gradually recognised
design-based and
contextualised approaches
Postcolonial computing
Situated computingDBR has not found a
concrete
methodological position
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social REpresentations of community multimedia centresand ACTions for improvement
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UNESCO, 2000
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CMCs in Mozambique (2011)
RE-ACT
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Research Questions
Meaning: Social Representations Theory
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Research Questions
Meaning: Social Representations Theory
Agency: (How) can local community members
participate in improving CMCs?
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Research Questions
Meaning: Social Representations Theory
Agency: (How) can local community members
participate in improving CMCs?
Development methodology: How can we harness these factors
(meaning & agency) for local development actions?
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RE-ACT
Social Representations
Actions for Improvement
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RE-ACT
Social Representations
Actions for Improvement(Moscovici, 1961)
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Community-Users
-(RC+TC) #95-(RC) #72
-Non-Users #8Initiating Agencies #2 Staff #57
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309 pictures, 103 interviewees (Staff members & CMC-Users)
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328 questionnaires (Radio Users)
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Community Radiossocio-political role
(edutainment) characteristics
information and knowledge for development
Telecentrescomputer training venue
Everyday computing needs: making photocopies, typing
hand-written documents, etc.
– General infrastructure and physical appearance
Social Representations
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Community Radiossocio-political role
(edutainment) characteristics
Information and knowledge for development
Telecentrescomputer training venue
everyday computing needs
Social Representations
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Community Radiossocio-political role
(edutainment) characteristics
general infrastructure and physical appearance of the CMC
Social Representations
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Focus on telecentres:learning places, access to ICTs (including photocopy machines and printers
bureaucratic administrative issues, political benefits of community radios,financial sustainability
Focus on community radios: working experience, personal satisfaction, prestige, giving “voice to the voiceless”.
Social Representations
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RE-ACT
Social Representations
Actions for Improvement
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Education: computer literacy, maintenance training &
capacity building, technical support hub
Tourism: online platform, radio program
Information: community-based information platform re-
broadcast via digital technology
Entertainment: community cinema
Improvement Actions
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Education: computer literacy, maintenance training &
capacity building, technical support hub
Tourism: online platform, radio program
Information: community-based information platform re-
broadcast via digital technology
Entertainment: community cinema
Improvement Actions
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Social Representations Study: include local voices
Co-Design with coordinators: formulate improvement actions
Co-Design with staff members: define
improvement actionsImplement improvement
actions
Formative evaluation
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real-world contexts
Mixed methods
iterative collaborations
education/capacity-building
flexibility
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Concluding thoughts
risk that ICT4D developers pay lip service to
participation
unclear to what extent design-based activities
translate into impactful development
How do locals become facilitators of their ownactions?
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Concluding thoughts
risk that ICT4D developers pay lip service to
participation
unclear to what extent design-based activities
translate into impactful development
How do locals become facilitators of their ownactions?
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Concluding thoughts
risk that ICT4D developers pay lip service to
participation
unclear to what extent design-based activities
translate into impactful development
How do locals become facilitators of their ownactions?
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As an amalgamation of ‘meaning and design’, DBR:
espouses the foundations of social constructivism
places design emphasis on flow of micro social
representation
hope to extend the methodology beyond superficial
implementations
Concluding thoughts
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As an amalgamation of ‘meaning and design’, DBR:
espouses the foundations of social constructivism
places design emphasis on flow of micro social
representation
hope to extend the methodology beyond superficial
implementations
Concluding thoughts
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As an amalgamation of ‘meaning and design’, DBR:
espouses the foundations of social constructivism
places design emphasis on flow of micro social
representation
hopes to extend the methodology beyond superficial
implementations
Concluding thoughts