Treffry-Goatley Astrid, de Lange Naydene, Moletsane Relebohile, Mkhize Nkonzo, Masinga Lungile
School of Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), Durban 3605, South Africa.
Faculty of Education, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth 6031, South Africa.
Behav Sci (Basel). 2018 Jul 26;8(8):67. doi: 10.3390/bs8080067.
Sexual violence in the higher education is an epidemic of global proportions. Scholars conclude that the individual and collective silence that surrounds such violence enables its perpetration and that violence will only be eradicated when we break this silence. In this paper, we used two participatory visual methods (PVM), collage and storytelling, to explore what sexual violence at university looks like and what it means to woman students. Two groups of student teachers in two South African universities were engaged in collage and storytelling workshops in late 2017 and early 2018, respectively. We thematically analyzed the issues that emerged from the data, drawing on transformative learning theory to explore how our approach might help women students to break the silence around sexual violence and stimulate critical dialogue to address it. Our analysis suggests that these visual tools enabled deep reflections on the meaning and impact of sexual violence, particularly for women. In addition, the participatory process supported introspection about their experiences of sexual violence and their responses to it as bystanders in and around campus. More importantly, they discussed how they, as young women, might break the silence and sustain new conversations about gender and gender equality in institutions and beyond.
高等教育中的性暴力是一个全球性的普遍问题。学者们得出结论，围绕此类暴力的个人和集体沉默助长了其发生，只有当我们打破这种沉默时，暴力才会被根除。在本文中，我们运用了两种参与式视觉方法（PVM），即拼贴画和故事讲述，来探究大学中的性暴力是什么样的，以及对女学生意味着什么。南非两所大学的两组实习教师分别于2017年末和2018年初参加了拼贴画和故事讲述工作坊。我们对数据中出现的问题进行了主题分析，借鉴变革性学习理论来探讨我们的方法如何帮助女学生打破围绕性暴力的沉默，并激发批判性对话以解决这一问题。我们的分析表明，这些视觉工具能够促使人们深入思考性暴力的意义和影响，尤其是对女性而言。此外，参与过程有助于她们反思自己遭受性暴力的经历以及作为校园内外旁观者的应对方式。更重要的是，她们讨论了作为年轻女性，如何打破沉默，并在机构内外就性别和性别平等展开新的对话。
