Browsing by Author "Naidoo, Anthony V."

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    Community psychology: constructing community, reconstructing psychology in South Africa
    (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000) Naidoo, Anthony V.
    An inaugural lecture is an important rite of passage in any university, serving two primary purposes. It is an opportunity for the university as an institution to induct and introduce its new academic appointee to the university community, to the local community and to the general public. For the appointee, it serves as a first formal opportunity to present him- or herself, to communicate his or her thoughts, ideas and intentions regarding the discipline or academic field to which he or she is expected to provide academic leadership and to initiate research. I’d like to structure my presentation into the following chapter or headings: 1) The personal context 2) Reconstructing Psychology in South Africa: The call for a relevant psychology 3) Community Psychology 4) Constructing Community: Implementing a community psychology project 5) Towards a Community Psychology curriculum 6) The University’s accountability to community development
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    Deconstructing career myths and cultural stereotypes in a context of low resourced township communities
    (Education Association of South Africa, 2017-11) Albien, Anouk J.; Naidoo, Anthony V.
    ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The current research presents the voices of black adolescents struggling to emerge from the shadow of the Apartheid legacy, focusing on the career beliefs that are perpetuated in low socio-economic communities and negatively influence career opportunities. Inaccurate information can result in career myths, which can have a negative impact on career development. The present study uses the Systems Theory Framework (STF) as a means of engaging with clients from marginalised groups. It also offers a mechanism to explore the impact of overlooked career influences such as culture, religion, community and socio-economic conditions. The qualitative career measure, My System of Career Influences (MSCI), was used to explore the factors that contribute to career decision-making. Specifically, widely shared irrational beliefs that had prevented participants from applying to tertiary institutions were examined. Career misconceptions were grouped according to Stead and Watson’s (1993) career myths, namely: 1) test myths; 2) misconceptions of exactitude; 3) self-esteem myths; and 4) career anxiety myths. The meaning-making that adolescents from disadvantaged contexts undergo, based on their unique constellation of contextual career influences and their resultant story-telling, is intrinsic to understanding local South African career identities embedded in township communities.
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    Moeders van 'n hoerisikogemeenskap se fotostemverkenning aangaande gemeenskapsbronne en behoefte aan verandering
    (LitNet, 2021) Van Schalkwyk, Izanette; Naidoo, Anthony V.
    Inheemse studies is van deurslaggewende belang om kontekstuele kennis te verkry om positiewe sosiale en fisiese verandering in hoërisikogemeenskappe teweeg te bring. Direkte skakeling en vennootskappe met gemarginaliseerde onderdrukte gemeenskappe is noodsaaklik in die wetenskaplike proses. Die fokus van dié kwalitatiewe studie was om met die moeders van ’n spesifieke hoërisikogemeenskap gemeenskapsbronne en behoeftes te verken deur middel van deelnemende-aksie-navorsing met die oog op verandering as ’n proses van bemagtiging. In aansluiting by ’n gemeenskapsielkundige perspektief, is die ekologiese model gebruik om die kompleksiteit van faktore geassosieer met moeders en hul kinders se funksionering in ’n hoërisikogemeenskap beter te verstaan. Gemeenskapsielkunde onderskryf die praktyk van metodes/tegnieke wat met deelnemende-aksie-navorsing geassosieer word. Kontekstuele data is ingesamel met behulp van ’n multimetode- deelnemende benadering: ’n fotostemtegniek waar moeders inligting verskaf het oor die eksterne hulpbronne en behoeftes van die verskeie gebiede van hul gemeenskap (eksterne omgewing) en ’n retrospektiewe tydlynoefening waar moeders inligting gegee het oor hul interne omgewing. Tematiese ontleding is by wyse van induktiewe en deduktiewe benaderings gedoen. Fotostembevindings (induktiewe benadering) het die moeders se waardering vir gemeenskapsbronne getoon in hul funksionering as moeders in hierdie hoërisiko-omgewing, maar hulle het ook die ernstige tekortkominge en gevare van hierdie konteks beklemtoon. Die bevindings wat gerig is deur ’n deduktiewe benadering toon die invloedryke gemeenskapsbronne van moeders se sosiale en fisiese omgewing in hierdie hoërisikogemeenskap. Die bevindings het die belang van kontekstualisering van die navorsingsproses bevestig deur die moeders se aktiewe betrokkenheid as medenavorsers as ’n primêre praktyk vir sosiale verandering uit te wys. Daar word aanbeveel dat toekomstige navorsing toenemend kontekstuele inligting sal insamel deur die gebruik van deelnemendeaksie-metodes om die navorsingsproses as vennootskap te optimaliseer in die vestiging van eg inheemse Suid-Afrikaanse studies.
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    Role salience of dual-career women managers
    (AOSIS Publishing, 2002-10) Naidoo, Anthony V.; Jano, Reyhana
    This study examines and contrasts the level of role participation, commitment and value expectation that dual-career women invest in contending work and family roles. While the 162 married women managers were found to participate significantly more in the work role, they indicated greater commitment to and value expectation from the home and family role. A significant positive correlation between the commitment to the work role and commitment to the home and family role suggests that dual-career women may experience work and home as complimentary rather than conflicting roles. For dual-career women, work salience and career salience were found to be moderately correlated.
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    Validating the adaptation of the first career measure in isiXhosa : the South African Career Interest Inventory–isiXhosa version
    (SAGE Publications, 2019) Rabie, Stephan; Naidoo, Anthony V.
    South African career counselling practices have predominantly been informed by vocational theories and models developed in the United States and Europe. In view of South Africa’s peculiar history and its unique cultural and linguistic environment, the indiscriminate application of Western career models has become increasingly contentious, as the majority of these models fail to account for culture-specific values that influence an individual’s career interests, decision-making, and development. The South African Career Interest Inventory was developed to address this contention, through operationalising John Holland’s vocational personality theory in South Africa. This study adapted and translated the South African Career Interest Inventory into isiXhosa, in the process constructing the first career interest inventory in a South African indigenous language. Subsequently, we investigated the structural validity of the South African Career Interest Inventory, and therefore Holland’s model, on a sample of isiXhosa-speaking secondary school learners (n = 266). The randomisation test of hypothesised order relations, multidimensional scaling, and covariance structure modelling were employed to examine the structural validity of the inventory. The results demonstrated the South African Career Interest Inventory–isiXhosa version to be a reliable and valid measure of vocational interest on an early isiXhosa adolescent sample, suggesting the tenability of Holland’s model in the South African context. Implications for research and practice are discussed.