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more » Researching resilience: lessons learned from working with rural, Sesotho-speaking South African young people
Vol 16, Issue 6, 2016
Linda C Theron First Published June 13, 2016
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Abstract Theories of youth resilience neglect youths’ lived experiences of what facilitates positive adjustment to hardship. The Pathways-to-Resilience Study addressed this by inviting Canadian, Chinese, Colombian, New Zealand and South African (SA) youths to share their resilience-related knowledge. In this article I report the challenges endemic to the rural, resource-poor, South African research site that complicated this Pathways ideal. I illustrate that blind application of a multi-country study design, albeit well-designed, potentially excludes youths with inaccessible parents, high mobility, and/or cellular telephone contact details. Additionally, I show that one-onone interview methods do not serve Sesotho-speaking youths well, and that the inclusion of adult ‘insiders’ in a
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research team does not guarantee regard for local youths’ insights. I comment critically on how these challenges
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