Online via UI Library electronic subscription., Authors used the Positive Deviance approach to identify the effective communication practices of rural women entrepreneurs in Uttar Pradesh, India, who succeed against overwhelming odds. A variety of participatory processes and liberating structures - improv theater, personal storytelling, discovery and action dialogues, and card-sorting games - were used to identify the highly uncommon practices of these entrepreneurs.
Morris, C. (author), Pitse-Boshomane, M.M. (author), Marias, M.A. (author), Roux, K. (author), Van Rensburg, R. (author), Herselman, M. (author), Makan, A. (author), Mulder, I. (author), and Centre for Community Networking Research, Monash University, Victoria, Australia.
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2008-10-27
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 178 Document Number: C35691
Notes:
Community Informatics Research Network (CIRN) Conference 2008, Prato, Italy, October 27-30, 2008. 13 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D01202
Notes:
Pages 171-177 in Chris Reij and Ann Waters-Bayer (eds.), Farmer innovation in Africa: a source of inspiration for agricultural development. Earthscan Publications, Ltd., London, England. 362 pages.
