Using participatory and inclusive methodologies to explore inclusive education in Africa.

IF 1.3 Q4 HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES African Journal of Disability Pub Date : 2024-10-18 eCollection Date: 2024-01-01 DOI:10.4102/ajod.v13i0.1486
Mary Wickenden
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Background: This paper presents researchers' experiences using participatory, inclusive research methodologies to explore aspects of inclusive education, with children with disabilities, parents, and teachers in Nigeria and Kenya.

Objectives: The objective is to describe working with children and adults with disabilities, as research collaborators, alongside local INGO staff and OPD partners.

Method: In Kenya we worked with 9 peer researchers with disabilities to run focus groups and interviews with children with disabilities, parents and teachers about inclusive pre-school education. In Nigeria we ran participatory workshops with children with disabilities, and their parents discussing what makes school and community settings inclusive, to inform the design of a Wellbeing and Inclusion checklist. The studies were based in pilot primary schools and Early Childhood Development and Education (ECDE or pre-school) classes in Nigeria and Kenya respectively. The data produced were recordings and notes from focus group discussions, interviews and activities and reflections from the peer researchers. Data analysis was an inclusive participatory process of thematic analysis carried out in person and online.

Results: These innovative approaches demonstrate that with careful planning and support, both adults and children with disabilities can be involved very directly in research processes not just as participants but as researchers.

Conclusion: We argue that using participatory, disability-inclusive approaches helps to make the findings more nuanced and genuine and the data and outputs generated uniquely grounded in people's realities and perspectives.

Contribution: These methods can potentially inform the mainstreaming of a disability inclusion approach into international development debates and activities.

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利用参与性和包容性方法探索非洲的全纳教育。
背景:本文介绍了研究人员使用参与式全纳研究方法,与尼日利亚和肯尼亚的残疾儿童、家长和教师共同探索全纳教育的经验:目的:介绍研究人员作为研究合作者,与当地国际非政府组织工作人员和业务部门合作伙伴一起,与残疾儿童和成人开展合作的情况:在肯尼亚,我们与 9 名残疾同行研究人员合作,就全纳学前教育问题与残疾儿童、家长和教师开展焦点小组讨论和访谈。在尼日利亚,我们举办了参与式研讨会,与残疾儿童及其家长讨论如何使学校和社区环境具有全纳性,为设计 "幸福与全纳 "清单提供信息。这些研究分别在尼日利亚和肯尼亚的试点小学和儿童早期发展与教育(ECDE 或学前教育)班进行。所产生的数据是重点小组讨论、访谈和活动的记录和笔记,以及同行研究人员的反思。数据分析是一个包容性的参与式专题分析过程,通过面谈和在线方式进行:这些创新方法表明,在精心策划和支持下,残疾成人和儿童不仅可以作为参与者,还可以作为研究者直接参与研究过程:我们认为,使用参与式、兼顾残疾问题的方法有助于使研究结果更加细致入微、更加真实,并使所生成的数据和成果更加符合人们的实际情况和观点:这些方法有可能为将残疾包容性方法纳入国际发展辩论和活动的主流提供信息。
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African Journal of Disability
African Journal of Disability HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES-
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2.10
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50
审稿时长
20 weeks
期刊介绍: The African Journal of Disability, the official journal of CRS, AfriNEAD and CEDRES, introduce and discuss issues and experiences relating to and supporting the act of better understanding the interfaces between disability, poverty and practices of exclusion and marginalisation. Its articles yield new insight into established human development practices, evaluate new educational techniques and disability research, examine current cultural and social discrimination, and bring serious critical analysis to bear on problems shared across the African continent. Emphasis is on all aspects of disability particularity in the developing African context. This includes, amongst others: -disability studies as an emerging field of public health enquiry -rehabilitation, including vocational and community-based rehabilitation -community development and medical issues related to disability and poverty -disability-related stigma and discrimination -inclusive education -legal, policy, human rights and advocacy issues related to disability -the role of arts and media in relation to disability -disability as part of global Sustainable Development Goals transformation agendas -disability and postcolonial issues -globalisation and cultural change in relation to disability -environmental and climate-related issues linked to disability -disability, diversity and intersections of identity -disability and the promotion of human development.
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