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The use of clinical practice to facilitate community engagement in the Faculty of Health Science

- Nuuyoma, Vistolina, Makhene, Agnes

  • Authors: Nuuyoma, Vistolina , Makhene, Agnes
  • Date: 2021
  • Subjects: Community engagement , Clinical placement , Clinical practice
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/479795 , uj:43411 , Citation: Nuuyoma, V. & Makhene, A. 2021. The use of clinical practice to facilitate community engagement in the Faculty of Health Science. , DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2021.103102
  • Description: Abstract: Aim: This article seeks to describe how clinical practice can be used to facilitate community engagement in the Faculty of Health Science. Design: The study followed a qualitative exploratory, descriptive and contextual design. Methods: The study was conducted in the Faculty of Health Science at a public university in Namibia, Southern Africa. A total of 19 academic staff were purposively selected to participate in the focus group interviews. Thereafter, Giorgi’s method of phenomenological data analysis was used to analyse data. Lincoln and Guba’s strategies were used to establish trustworthiness. The ethical considerations followed Dhai and McQuoid-Mason’s four principles. Results: The three themes that emerged as findings were: facilitation of community engagement through home visits as part of clinical practice; facilitation of community engagement through clinical rural placements; and facilitation of community engagement through interprofessional education and practice. Conclusions: It is concluded that health science students and academic staff should conduct home visits, students’ placement should also include rural based facilities and allow inter-professional education and practice in clinical practice. However, there remains an overall need to explore for community engagement projects that may be conducted in rural settings. Additionally, a generic service-learning course for all undergraduate health science students may help facilitate community engagement through interprofessional education and practice.
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Impact assessment to measure the success of implementation of rural community engagement projects. a case study

- Naidoo, Rene, Meyer, Johan

Cellular technology for prevention of “Give and forget” community service projects

- Naidoo, Rene, Meyer, Johan

Place making in tourism-led local economic development (LED) : a case study of Coffee Bay, Wild Coast, Eastern Cape province, South Africa

- Sitinga, Sinovuyo Babalwa, Ogra, Aurobindo

  • Authors: Sitinga, Sinovuyo Babalwa , Ogra, Aurobindo
  • Date: 2014
  • Subjects: Coastal Tourism , Community development , Community engagement , Sustainable development , Tourism - South Africa - Coffee Bay , Local Economic Development
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: uj:4938 , ISSN 978-0-86970-781-4 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/13038
  • Description: On the East Coast of South Africa, on the warm waters of the Indian Ocean, lie the shores of Coffee Bay town. This small predominantly rural beach town beams with multitude of tourism potential. The town prides itself for its magnificent beach, hotels, and tourism activities like: horse riding, hiking and boasts of other tourism facilities and attractions. Besides tourism potential this small town faces number of challenges. The majority of the town’s economically active population is illiterate, unemployed and lives under the poverty line. The town on its own is a pot of gold; however, the community needs to be more involved in the decision making for developments within the town, as well as encouraging of pride of citizenship. This would ensure maximum benefit for residents, in terms of economic growth, access to opportunities, betterment of livelihoods, etc. In the pursuit of Tourism-led Local Economic Development (LED) oriented growth in Coffee Bay, the place making determinants becomes central in order to address the number of challenges faced by the local communities. Place making determinants and processes applicable to the area entails optimal use of resources that are unique to an area, for the economic (increased investment in the area, rise in tourists coming in, improved environments for fishing, establishment of a fully functional and beneficial fishing industry), social (improved well-being of local residents), community (infrastructure and livelihood within the town) and otherwise benefits. The paper discusses the place based tourism-led approaches in the context of rural communities and highlights the key determinants of place making process in a rural centric tourism-led local economic development. The research is based on mixed method approach (qualitative and quantitative) and brings out the discussion on: essence, self-sufficiency, sustainability and inclusion of communities based on locally available assets, potential and resources.
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The role of screen-print projects in enhancing awareness of active citizenship : a case study at artist proof studio

- Hartwig, Claudia Katarina

  • Authors: Hartwig, Claudia Katarina
  • Date: 2012-07-31
  • Subjects: Citizenship , Community engagement , Screen process printing , Visual art learning programs , Artist Proof Studio (Johannesburg, South Africa) , Community education , Social participation
  • Type: Thesis
  • Identifier: uj:8877 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/5345
  • Description: M.Tech. , This study is based on the premise that awareness of active citizenship among South African citizens should be encouraged and can be developed through specific educational and skills interventions embedded in Visual Art learning programmes. South Africa‟s developing democracy requires active citizens with the capacity to disseminate values of equality, dignity, liberty and social justice, amongst other constitutional rights. Our country‟s history in the struggle for liberation encompasses a legacy of resistance, and screen-printed protest posters played an important role in communicating dissent towards the apartheid state (Seidmann 2009, Peffer 2009). My research examines the role of screen-printing as a particular graphic medium which is an organising tool to create awareness and communication. The project uses co-operative enquiry as a participatory action research method to facilitate the application of hand-made fine art screen-printed artworks and posters that support skills development, an understanding of self-identity and a sharing of skills that contribute to active citizenship. I present three visual art screen-printing projects that I facilitated from 2010 to 2011 at Artist Proof Studio (APS), an art centre in Johannesburg, whose mission is to inculcate aspects of active citizenship among the participating learners. I contend that the combination of all three screen-print projects presented to the group of students, leads to skills-development, awareness of personal identity and participation in community engagement projects which may enhance their ability to participate as active citizens and which in turn supports the mission statement of the education unit at APS. Such an intervention serves as a learning model that can further contribute to social, educational and economic redress among the participants at APS.
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University of Johannesburg Community Engagement report, 2012

- University of Johannesburg

  • Authors: University of Johannesburg
  • Date: 2012
  • Subjects: University of Johannesburg , Community engagement
  • Type: Report
  • Identifier: uj:5378 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/8883
  • Description: The University of Johannesburg (UJ)—one of the largest, multi-campus, residential universities in South Africa — seeks to achieve the highest distinction in scholarship and research within the higher education context. Born from the 2005 merger between the former Rand Afrikaans University (RAU), the Technikon Witwatersrand (TWR) and the Soweto and East Rand campuses of Vista University, the University of Johannesburg’s unique academic architecture reflects a comprehensive range of learning programmes, leading to a variety of qualifications, from vocational and traditional academic to professional and postgraduate, across the four campuses – Auckland Park Kingsway, Auckland Park Bunting Road, Doornfontein and Soweto. The campuses vary in size and each has its own character and culture, contributing to the institution’s rich diversity. The University of Johannesburg has benefited from a large pool of researchers bringing together various fields of expertise and research focus areas. The University provides the ideal ground for interdisciplinary research and currently has 114 rated researchers. Six of these researchers are A-rated – all of whom are recognised as world leaders in their field. UJ is also home to 22 research centres. The University fosters ideas that are rooted in African epistemology, but also addresses the needs of a South African society and the African continent as it is committed to contribute to sustainable growth and development. UJ continues to build a culture of inclusion, embracing South Africa’s rich histories, cultures, languages, religions, genders, races and social and economic classes. Additionally, the University encourages a culture of service as part of the University student experience and it proudly pursues a four-language policy in English, isiZulu, Afrikaans and Sesotho sa Leboa. UJ staff and students come from over 50 countries in Africa and around the world. The University has also built links, partnerships and exchange agreements with leading African and other international institutions that further enrich the academic, social and cultural diversity of the UJ campuses. It is also the recipient of the highest levels of external financial support from donors and partners all over the world. This demonstrates the high esteem in which UJ is held internationally. In 2012 processes began to revise the UJ Vision, Mission and Values, and these were approved and launched in November 2012.
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Cultural action for change : a case for cross-cultural, multidisciplinary collaborations

- Berman, Kim

  • Authors: Berman, Kim
  • Date: 2011
  • Subjects: Visual methodologies , Participatory action research , Community engagement , HIV/AIDS awareness
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: uj:6264 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/8828
  • Description: Cultural Action for Change began in 2000 as a joining of artists, educators, and student-researchers to assess sustainability and address the impact of HIV within Phumani Paper; a government-funded poverty alleviation program, establishing hand papermaking and craft enterprises across South Africa. Inspired by ideals of empowerment and self-determination, a series of qualitative, Participatory Action Research (PAR) interventions for HIV awareness and action were introduced at six Phumani papermaking workshop sites. Student researchers and participants, with the collaboration of academics from the University of Michigan, were trained in Photovoice methodology to document with photographs and personal narrative the participants’ struggles for economic independence. Through iterative processes of reflection and sharing, participants identified shared social action objectives. Cultural Action for Change (also termed AIDS Action) consisted of arts-based, multi-disciplinary community interventions conducted over five years, and adopted a PAR framework as an approach that seeks to enhance the lives of the participants. The goal of the AIDS Action Intervention was to provide support to, and increase the agency of, participants of the Phumani Paper craft enterprises affected by the HIV pandemic. The aim was to enable the participants to break the silence, to confront the fear and stigma of HIV, and to seek voluntary counselling and testing (VCT), thereby contributing to reducing the number of deaths in their projects and communities. An additional objective was to achieve an increase in productivity and income for the enterprises as a result of greater group trust, information, networking and agency. The creative strategies that the research teams used for the AIDS Action intervention were Photovoice and Paper Prayers. The impact assessment conducted revealed that members of the Phumani Paper groups see themselves as individuals who have acquired skills that can transform waste into objects of beauty and have understood their own sense of agency to effect personal and organizational change.
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University of Johannesburg Community Engagement report, 2011

- University of Johannesburg

  • Authors: University of Johannesburg
  • Date: 2011
  • Subjects: University of Johannesburg , Community engagement
  • Type: Report
  • Identifier: uj:5376 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/8881
  • Description: The University of Johannesburg, one of the largest, multi-campus, residential universities in South Africa, seeks to achieve the highest distinction in scholarship and research within the higher education context. Born from the 2005 merger between the former Rand Afrikaans University (RAU), the Technikon Witwatersrand (TWR) and the Soweto and East Rand campuses of Vista University, the University of Johannesburg’s unique academic architecture reflects a comprehensive range of learning programmes, leading to a variety of qualifications, from vocational and traditional academic to professional and postgraduate, across the four campuses – Auckland Park Kingsway, Auckland Park Bunting Road, Doornfontein and Soweto. The campuses vary in size and each has its own character and culture, contributing to the Institution’s rich diversity. The University of Johannesburg has benefited from a large pool of researchers bringing together various fields of expertise and research focus areas. The University provides the ideal ground for interdisciplinary research and currently has more than 99 rated researchers. Five of these researchers are A-rated – all of whom are recognised as world leaders in their field. UJ is also home to 22 research centres. The University fosters ideas that are rooted in African epistemology, but also addresses the needs of South African society and the African continent as it is committed to contribute to sustainable growth and development. We continue to build a culture of inclusion, embracing South Africa’s rich histories, cultures, languages, religions, genders, races and social and economic classes. Additionally, the University encourages a culture of service as part of the university student experience and it proudly pursues a four-language policy of English, IsiZulu, Afrikaans and Sesotho sa Leboa. Our staff and students come from over 50 countries in Africa and around the world. The University has also built links, partnerships and exchange agreements with leading African and other international institutions that further enrich the academic, social and cultural diversity of our campuses. It is also the recipient of the highest levels of external financial support from donors and partners all over the world. This demonstrates the high esteem in which we are held internationally.
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