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dc.contributor.supervisorHeald, Susan (Women's Studies) Wiens, John (Educational Administration, Foundations and Psychology)en
dc.contributor.authorJanzen, Melanie D.
dc.date.accessioned2005-04-15T21:01:46Z
dc.date.available2005-04-15T21:01:46Z
dc.date.issued2005-04-15T21:01:46Z
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1993/111
dc.description.abstractThis snapshot ethnographic research was conducted in Kihande Village in Uganda with the Agabagaya Women’s Group for a period of five weeks in 2004. Using a feminist ethnographic methodology, the researcher explores how women value, share and pursue knowledge informally among themselves to support themselves, their families and their communities. The analysis indicates that the women of Agabagaya are knowers in their worlds, that they actively pursue educational opportunities and development opportunities, and that they do so from a grassroots level. This particular group does not rely on and may actually be hindered by external development organizations and outside educational influences with top-down models. However, the group does use external development agencies when there is opportunity for the group to benefit. The researcher further explores the positions and implications of a white, Western researcher conducting research in a developing, non-white country and discovers that positive and respectful relationships are at the heart of the research process and that the participants control many aspects of the research itself.en
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dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subjectethnographyen
dc.subjectfeministen
dc.subjectdevelopmenten
dc.subjecteducationen
dc.subjectwomenen
dc.subjectcommunityen
dc.subjectfeminist researchen
dc.subjectpost-developmenten
dc.titleResearcher as learner, participants as knowers: an ethnographic snapshot of women sharing knowledge in a rural Uganda communityen
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis
dc.typemaster thesisen_US
dc.degree.disciplineEducational Administration, Foundations and Psychology (IIP Stream)en_US
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeWallin, Dawn (Educational Administration, Foundations and Psychology) McMillan, Barbara (Curriculum, Teaching and Learning)en
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts (M.A.)en_US
dc.description.noteMay 2005en


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