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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
Design-Based Research
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)
Design-Based Research
DBR can help create and extend knowledge about
developing, enacting, and sustaining innovative
learning environments.
(DBR Collaborative, 2003)
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
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
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
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
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
ICT4D community
has gradually recognised
design-based and
contextualised approaches
Postcolonial computing
Situated computing
ICT4D community
has gradually recognised
design-based and
contextualised approaches
Postcolonial computing
Situated computingDBR has not found a
concrete
methodological position
social REpresentations of community multimedia centresand ACTions for improvement
UNESCO, 2000
CMCs in Mozambique (2011)
RE-ACT
Research Questions
Meaning: Social Representations Theory
Research Questions
Meaning: Social Representations Theory
Agency: (How) can local community members
participate in improving CMCs?
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?
RE-ACT
Social Representations
Actions for Improvement
RE-ACT
Social Representations
Actions for Improvement(Moscovici, 1961)
Community-Users
-(RC+TC) #95-(RC) #72
-Non-Users #8Initiating Agencies #2 Staff #57
309 pictures, 103 interviewees (Staff members & CMC-Users)
328 questionnaires (Radio Users)
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
Community Radiossocio-political role
(edutainment) characteristics
Information and knowledge for development
Telecentrescomputer training venue
everyday computing needs
Social Representations
Community Radiossocio-political role
(edutainment) characteristics
general infrastructure and physical appearance of the CMC
Social Representations
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
RE-ACT
Social Representations
Actions for Improvement
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
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
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
real-world contexts
Mixed methods
iterative collaborations
education/capacity-building
flexibility
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?
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?
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?
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
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
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
