S. Nombuso Dlamini

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor (Associate) at York University

This chapter presents findings from the Toronto Tikkun Youth Project participants about their community and civic engagement activities. Data was gathered through interviews with sixteen participants who were between 16 and 24 years old and were of varied ethnic and racial backgrounds. The chapter contributes to the literature that challenges notio...

This paper discusses the possibilities and limits of working with youth researchers in participatory action research. Based on Engaging Girls, Changing Communities (EGCC) a study designed to investigate barriers and facilitators to young women’s leadership and civic activities in new urban environments, we analysed youth researchers’ reflective not...

This paper presents findings from two research studies: Assets Coming Together for Youth (ACT for Youth); and, Engaging Girls Changing Communities (EGCC). ACT for Youth was a collaborative university-community research study designed to understand youth perspectives on well-being and encourage positive youth development in the historically stigmati...

This paper discusses findings from a larger research study entitled Assets Coming Together for Youth: ACT (2009 – 2015) that focused on the Jane-Finch neighbourhood, a stigmatized urban environment located in the North York region of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Underpinned by research on urban youth violence and on community characteristics, social c...

Although the literature on youth civic engagement is copious, little light has been shed on the factors that either enable or impede girls' civic participation in urban settings. In this paper, we examine girls' motivation for and spaces of community involvement in the Greater Toronto Area. In particular, we highlight the drivers and patterns of gi...

On the basis of a qualitative study with immigrant women in Windsor, Ontario, this article looks at women’s responses to the challenges they face in the Canadian workplace, together with the value they place on working outside the home. The women reflected on their job searches, employment conditions, and work experiences as mediated by the norms a...

This paper is based on an international study, HIV Prevention for Rural Youth (HP4RY) 2008-2012, designed to examine the state of, and teach about, sexual health and HIV/AIDS in Edo State, Nigeria. The paper focuses on the mixed methods used in this study, paying attention to the meaning of collaboration and participation in research in a cross-con...

School-based programming is one of the most common approaches to HIV/AIDS prevention among youth. This paper presents the history and development of the Family Life and HIV Education (FLHE) programme in Edo State, Nigeria and results of evaluation of teacher actions and responses to training in its delivery. Results indicate that teachers benefited...

Established in 2009, The Jean Augustine Chair in Education in the New Urban Environment presented the learning community opportunity to define new urbanism through debates, conversations and other learning encounters. As the inaugural chair, Dlamini began conversations with faculty, students and community in order to unpack the meaning of the new u...

In this paper we offer an incident that exemplifies one of multiple strategies internationally educated teacher candidates (IETC) use to survive practicum experiences. More specifically, we present an incident that demonstrates teacher candidates' strategic way of using words, such as ‘good’ and ‘fine’, to disguise true feelings about experiences o...

This paper discusses processes through which African Canadian youth construct their identities as well as form friendships within and across ethnic boundaries. The paper presents how, through these processes, youth use resources in history that help them construct and negotiate diaspora identities and friendships while simultaneously distancing the...

This paper is based on qualitative interviews undertaken with immigrant youth of African descent in Windsor, Ontario; it describes their sojourner lives across geographic borders and their final settlement in Windsor. The paper also offers narrations of the activities that enabled them to formulate friendships and the barriers and facilitators to t...

This article is about an ongoing initiative that addresses the challenges confronted by teacher candidates to whom English is an additional language and whose cultures are considered different from those of the Canadian mainstream. The initiative is a seminar, Language and Cultural Engagement, in which teacher candidates are prepared for practice t...

This paper describes a recent initiative designed to provide support for teacher candidates from culturally diverse backgrounds as they traverse a one-year teacher education program in Canada. Results and discussion are based on qualitative data from an information survey, student-professor conversations, a review of seminar documents and processes...

In this paper the author looks at what it means to tell, live with, and learn from stories of painful losses resulting from traumatic histories, the most recent history being apartheid. The author's examination centers on the concept of "inkumbulo," a Zulu word that embraces several concepts crucial in studies of historical memory and its meanings....

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Documenting youth participation in the South African anti-apartheid struggle, Youth and Identity Politics in South Africa examines identity construction and negotiation in the region of KwaZulu/Natal. Based on extensive interviews, Sibusisiwe Nombuso Dlamini presents life stories of survival and identity negotiation in a region and at a time where...

This paper examines complexities involved in the classroom application of critical pedagogy and antiracism education. It examines the concept of border crossing as a tool for progressive classroom teaching. In educational theory, difference is seen as an analytic tool that students use to examine the ways in which dominant cultures create practices...

This paper is an examination of the ties that underscore Zulu identity in KwaZulu/Natal, as well as ways in which these ties are used to legitimise certain practices located in the social and political context of a changing South Africa. I begin by examining, in general, the development of Zulu identity and the different ties of identification gene...

This paper examines the role of education in producing and perpetuating the social and cultural characteristics of apartheid. Specifically, this paper examines the education of Blacks in South Africa during the years 1948 to 1992, arguing that education mirrored the broader history of enslavement and oppression characteristic of the apartheid era....

In this paper 1 have analyzed discourses in preservice education classrooms. The analysis is done in order to examine the complexities faced by professors who attempt to move away from using prescribed ethnic categories of identifications in their teaching. 1 argue that the struggle to assert one's identity as fluid and as drawn from multiple and c...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Toronto, 1996. Includes bibliographical references.