Narratives of Adolescent Girls Journeying via Feminist Participatory Action Research through the Aftermath of Divorce

Autor/inn/en	Botha, Carolina S.; Hay, Johnnie
Titel	Narratives of Adolescent Girls Journeying via Feminist Participatory Action Research through the Aftermath of Divorce
Quelle	In: Africa Education Review, 13 (2016) 2, S.165-180 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1814-6627
DOI	10.1080/18146627.2016.1224105
Schlagwörter	Females; Divorce; Adolescents; Parents; Family Structure; Foreign Countries; Parent Influence; Parent Child Relationship; Action Research; Feminism; Experience; Psychological Patterns; Emotional Response; Mothers; Fathers; South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Weibliches Geschlecht; Ehescheidung; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Eltern; Familienkonstellation; Familiensystem; Ausland; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Projektforschung; Feminismus; Erfahrung; Emotionales Verhalten; Mother; Mutter; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	This article documents the (often counter-normative) narrative journey of four South African adolescent girls whose biological parents had divorced--and one (or both) parent(s) remarried. Through purposive sampling within a qualitative research paradigm of feminist participatory action research, they were supported in group context by the primary researcher to voice their narratives; within a world where they are mostly inundated with (normative) discourses on what they are supposed to be experiencing. The ways in which their lives were influenced by parental divorce and subsequent remarriage were explored, and normative prescriptive discourses about divorce, remarriage and parent-child relationships deconstructed. This offered participants the opportunity to re-author their stories about their families and to explore the problem-saturated narratives that these four participants had with their biological, non-residential fathers--and the novel relations with their stepfathers. Sharing the narratives of these relationships led to significant discoveries about alternative post-divorce dynamics. The participants also initiated social action in their school by advocating for the cause of divorce and the plight of teenagers living with the reality of post-divorce dynamics. (As Provided).
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