TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract Since 2008, the Global North universities and the rural district of Chilanga, Kasungu in Malawi, have endeavored to create a dialogic, inclusive, and reciprocal knowledge-transfer project. Numerous years of consultation with community members resulted in the creation of Transformative Praxis: Malawi, a project dedicated to bettering human conditions in one of the most impoverished areas of the world. Through participatory action research (PAR), the Malawian community strongly indicated the need to foster critical thinking, creativity, and social entrepreneurship in the areas of Education, Health, and Development. Although local women were prominent in all stakeholder meetings, a growing suspicion emerged that the inclusive intent of our research-based work was actually supporting existing male-oriented power structures, which exist despite ongoing assurances of the active participation of women in decision-making, and the purported matrilineal societal nature of Malawi. Through a progressive series of critical incidents connected to literature on PAR and women in impoverished communities, this chapter chronicles the manner in which local Chilanga women unexpectedly and unconventionally solidified their participation and authentic leadership in a Global North and South initiative based in Malawi.
VL  - 25
SN  - 978-1-78635-071-8, 978-1-78635-072-5/1479-3660
DO  - 10.1108/S1479-366020160000025015
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-366020160000025015
AU  - Stonebanks Christopher Darius
AU  - Sheerin Fintan
AU  - Bennett-Stonebanks Melanie
AU  - Nyirenda-Paradise Jenala
PY  - 2016
Y1  - 2016/01/01
TI  - Just Give the Money to the Women: Overly Simplified Advice that Works in International Education, Health, and Development Initiatives
T2  - Racially and Ethnically Diverse Women Leading Education: A Worldview
T3  - Advances in Educational Administration
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 255
EP  - 277
Y2  - 2024/09/19
ER  -