By James Duminy, Jørgen Andreasen, Fred Lerise, N. Odendaal, V. Watson
This publication addresses the relevance of the case learn learn technique for boosting city making plans examine and schooling in Africa and the worldwide South. It offers an advent to the case research technique and lines examples of its program to making plans learn and schooling at the continent.
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The use of a case journal (a physical file with printed resources and data arranged in chronological order) is one useful way of storing and organizing data systematically, and if relevant, categorizing collected data according to various subthemes or subcases. Ensuring the factuality of data Although case study writers and readers generally have to deal with ‘ill-structured knowledge’ (involving contexts, narratives, ambiguities, nuanced interpretations and so on), triangulation techniques and feedback procedures can be followed to promote the accuracy of the data 36 Planning and the Case Study Method in Africa and interpretations presented (Patton, 1987; Stake, 2006, pp.
What Manda finds is that the bicycle taxi industry in Mzuzu not only offers a highly attractive and generally sustainable income source for the previously unemployed, but also benefits those already holding formal jobs but seeking a supplementary income. Police harassment of the operators is irregular, and some police officials are themselves owners of bicycle taxis. Political issues and rent-seeking behaviour amongst the police and operator organizations surface as explanations for some operators being arrested and having their bicycles confiscated.
However, we see the case study as a pre-eminent methodological approach for the purposes of understanding and intervening in complex environments and processes. We also see teaching approaches based on case studies as capable of fostering the experiential learning that may equip graduate planners in Africa with the skills and insights needed to confront the issues faced in the workplace. This chapter is structured in several parts. The following section defines the case study research method, and describes the primary characteristics of a ‘case study’.