Understanding Relational and Group Experiences through the Mmogo-Method®

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxvi

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2. Foundations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introducing the Mmogo-method as a Visual Data-Collection Method

      • Vera Roos

      Pages 3-17

   3. Conducting the Mmogo-method

      • Vera Roos

      Pages 19-31

   4. Theories and Heuristic Constructs Informing the Mmogo-method

      • Vera Roos, Andries Baart

      Pages 33-40

   5. Research Integrity and the Mmogo-method: Some Reflections

      • Jaco Hoffman

      Pages 41-51

3. Data Collection and Analysis

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53

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   2. Implementing the Mmogo-method: A Group of Setswana-Speaking Older People’s Relational Experiences in a Rural Community Setting

      • Vera Roos

      Pages 55-88

   3. The Mmogo-method and the Intergenerational Group Reflecting Technique to Explore Intergenerational Interactions and Textual Data Analysis

      • Vera Roos

      Pages 89-117

   4. Analyzing Visual Data with Text from the Mmogo-method: Experience of Meaning During the Third Trimester of Pregnancy

      • Vera Roos, Amoné Redelinghuys

      Pages 119-138

4. Applications

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139

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   2. Theorizing from the Mmogo-method: Self-Interactional Group Theory (SIGT) to Explain Relational Interactions

      • Vera Roos

      Pages 141-170

   3. The Development of a Board Game as Intergenerational Intervention: Secondary Analysis of Data from the Mmogo-method

      • Maryke Hewett, Vera Roos, Werner de Klerk

      Pages 171-193

   4. Using the Mmogo-method to Explore Important Places and Their Meaning in Two Communities: The Importance of Context

      • Karen Puren, Vera Roos

      Pages 195-212

5. Reflections and Going Forward

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 213-213

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   2. Participants’ Reflections on Participating in the Mmogo-method: The Example of Mental Health Workers’ Coping Strategies

      • Vera Roos, Jenni van der Westhuizen, Anna Keyter

      Pages 215-227

   3. Researcher’s Reflections on Using the Mmogo-method and Other Visual Research Methods

      • Avivit Cherrington

      Pages 229-259

6. Back Matter

   Pages 261-265

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This volume describes the development and application of the Mmogo-method® as a projective visual data-gathering method, applied in different contexts and with different groups of people. "Mmogo" means togetherness in Setswana, one of the 11 official languages of South Africa. The Mmogo-method® provides a deep understanding of personal, relational and group experiences and is particularly useful in cross-cultural contexts and across age groups. By allowing visual expressions of the self as a complex, dynamic social system it overcomes some of the limitations of traditional data-collection methods, such as questionnaires or interviews.  The book draws together contributions by leading social scientists to show how this flexible, visual data-collection method can be used independently or jointly with other data-gathering techniques, such as journalling or in-depth interviewing, to acquire rich information. The research method described here enables investigators to access perceptions, feelings and personal experiences participants might otherwise find hard to verbalize and explain. Researchers in disciplines such as education, social sciences, consumer sciences, market research, and city and town planning will find this book and its innovative method particularly valuable in addressing a gap in available visual and other data collection resources.

• Application of the Mmogo-Method®
• Contributions of the Mmogo-Method®
• Critical Reflections on the Mmogo-Method®
• Development of the Mmogo-Method®
• Group Processes and the Mmogo-Method
• Intergenerational Ralational Questionnaire
• Mmogo-Method®: Co-Construction of Knowledge in Setswana
• Qualitative Research Methods
• Quality of Life of the Elderly in Residential Care Facilities
• Research in Cross-Cultural Environments
• Respect of Children for Elderly People
• Theory Development and Conceptual Explanations
• Using Mmogo-Method® to Understand on a Personal Level
• Visual Data Analysis
• Visual Research Methods

• Africa Unit for Transdisciplinary Health Research, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa

  Vera Roos

Vera Roos is a Professor of Psychology at the North-West University's Potchefstroom Campus since 2004. To date she has published 65 peer reviewed papers in national and international journals and contributed to 20 chapters in textbooks. She has also presented various papers and posters at national and international conferences on topics related to community psychology with a focus on enabling contexts, relational psychology, intergenerational relations and the contributions of older persons in challenged contexts. Vera's theoretical approach, namely that the broader social environment informs the dynamic processes in complex systems, provided the background for the development of the Mmogo-method. This method assists social researchers to access the dynamic interactions between people in relation to their communities within a particular context and in a culturally sensitive manner. The Mmogo-method is regarded as a visual narrative that assists people to recount experiences and to makesense of the context in which they function. Vera is committed to promote the relational and collective wellbeing of older people and communities in relation to the contextual realities by eliciting strengths and competencies. Vera Roos is a NRF-rated scientist on level C2.

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