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- Title
Criticalities of Non-Verbal Reading Competencies: An Afrocentric Ethnological Approach to Qualitative Research.
- Authors
Nyoni, Jabulani
- Abstract
Body contact and body language reading are unique and existential and, although culturally dependent and socially embodied, they are critical ethno-specific communication forms confined within contextual geo-spaces. The interactive narratives of ethno-specific, non-verbal communication in my qualitative research approach were facilitated using e-mails, web blogs and thread observations generated by senior research leaders who shared their views on appropriate Afro-ethno-specific qualitative data collection methodologies. Afro-ethno-specific qualitative data collection methodology needs a new narrative that focuses on creating Afrocentric research practices and data collection instruments that are validated for African contexts. Research findings indicate that non-verbal reading competencies that take cognizance of the application of the 3 Cs of non-verbal communication; context, clusters and congruence that are group and Afro-ethno specific were often ignored by researchers in South Africa. The article argues that the application of Afro-ethno specific non-verbal reading competencies, knowledges and skills is critical for it takes into cognizance people's ethnic origin, culture, identity, race, nationality, norms, values, religion or belief systems.
- Subjects
SOUTH Africa; NONVERBAL communication; BODY language; QUALITATIVE research; ACQUISITION of data; READING; LANGUAGE contact
- Publication
Koers: Bulletin for Christian Scholarship, 2021, Vol 86, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0023-270X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.19108/KOERS.86.1.2486