Hey Everyone,
Here is a short 10-minute video that I made about my photovoice experience this summer:
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
July Prompt: Phase 2
- Briefly describe the current status of your project.
- How does your CBR experience compare to your initial expectations?
- What has been the most rewarding and challenging aspects of working with your community partner?
I am back in Chapel Hill now! Sorry, the blogging has not been as consistent lately, but after coming back, I have mainly been trying to maintain my communication with the individuals involved with my project, in order to complete Phase 2 of my research project. Phase 2 intended to use the results from Phase 1, or the data from the youth-led Photovoice project, to help improve the teaching program of Mahita.
In this second part of the project, I hope to work with the educators and directors of SMILE and Mahita, in using the photos, to assess and modify the curriculum of the Mahita education program in order to make it more relevant to the daily lives of the children. This will serve as a more qualitative assessment. Since this part of the project is being completed through internet/email correspondence, some time delay, inevitably, results between receiving and responding to the emails. I guess one of the main challenges that I have encountered in this project has been in consistence. In Phase 1, it was the inconsistency of attendance from participants, and in Phase 2 the inconsistency in email communication from both sides. There are many variables involved with this second phase and the coordination of both the educators and coordinators and myself, seems to be a more daunting task than I had foreseen. Despite all this, those who are involved with this project, including myself, remain interested in its goals and in using the results from Phase 1 to help improve the Mahita programs throughout Hyderabad.
The goals/questions that I hope to answer with this second stage of research are:
1) Does the current curriculum of Mahita schools effectively help transition dropout students to government schools?
2) How equipped are Mahita students in competing with local youth after this transition?
3) How important is it to increase the independent problem-solving skills of students?
4) How can we use the results of Photovoice (the photos and interviews) to help increase awareness and social action in Rasoolpura? How can the voices of the children become an integrated part of the curiculum?
5) How can Mahita/the community help translate the goals of the students into reality?
These are not questions with answers, but through communication with the different levels of Mahita coordinators, I hope to understand the goals of the organization and, in using those goals, promote a liberal education program that will enhance the social education of the children, so that they are more successfully transitioned into year-round public schools.
That’s all for now, and I will try to put up the pictures from the project ASAP, but all of them are currently in hard-copy form, so I will have to scan them first in order to upload them on the internet. I will also be working throughout this month to create a short video of my Photovoice experiences.
Madhu
- How does your CBR experience compare to your initial expectations?
- What has been the most rewarding and challenging aspects of working with your community partner?
I am back in Chapel Hill now! Sorry, the blogging has not been as consistent lately, but after coming back, I have mainly been trying to maintain my communication with the individuals involved with my project, in order to complete Phase 2 of my research project. Phase 2 intended to use the results from Phase 1, or the data from the youth-led Photovoice project, to help improve the teaching program of Mahita.
In this second part of the project, I hope to work with the educators and directors of SMILE and Mahita, in using the photos, to assess and modify the curriculum of the Mahita education program in order to make it more relevant to the daily lives of the children. This will serve as a more qualitative assessment. Since this part of the project is being completed through internet/email correspondence, some time delay, inevitably, results between receiving and responding to the emails. I guess one of the main challenges that I have encountered in this project has been in consistence. In Phase 1, it was the inconsistency of attendance from participants, and in Phase 2 the inconsistency in email communication from both sides. There are many variables involved with this second phase and the coordination of both the educators and coordinators and myself, seems to be a more daunting task than I had foreseen. Despite all this, those who are involved with this project, including myself, remain interested in its goals and in using the results from Phase 1 to help improve the Mahita programs throughout Hyderabad.
The goals/questions that I hope to answer with this second stage of research are:
1) Does the current curriculum of Mahita schools effectively help transition dropout students to government schools?
2) How equipped are Mahita students in competing with local youth after this transition?
3) How important is it to increase the independent problem-solving skills of students?
4) How can we use the results of Photovoice (the photos and interviews) to help increase awareness and social action in Rasoolpura? How can the voices of the children become an integrated part of the curiculum?
5) How can Mahita/the community help translate the goals of the students into reality?
These are not questions with answers, but through communication with the different levels of Mahita coordinators, I hope to understand the goals of the organization and, in using those goals, promote a liberal education program that will enhance the social education of the children, so that they are more successfully transitioned into year-round public schools.
That’s all for now, and I will try to put up the pictures from the project ASAP, but all of them are currently in hard-copy form, so I will have to scan them first in order to upload them on the internet. I will also be working throughout this month to create a short video of my Photovoice experiences.
Madhu
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