Bokamoso Engaged Scholarship Project: Drama-Based Youth Workshops in Winterveld, 2025

Maria Bettman's Bokamoso Engaged Scholarship Project documents a practice-led research initiative conducted in the winter of 2025. The project involved youth from the Bokamoso Life Centre in Winterveld, South Africa, participating in five drama workshops to build self-efficacy and social learning. The resulting data likely includes workshop outcomes, participant feedback, and analysis of the two short problem plays created on themes of suicide and toxic masculinity.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the impact of drama-based interventions on youth self-efficacy and teamwork based on the described key findings.
• Studying the application of Boalian Forum Theatre and improvisation in community settings as described in the project methodology.
• Exploring vocabulary and language development through creative performance as mentioned in the project outcomes.
• Investigating themes of mental health and gender norms in youth-created content, based on the described play topics of suicide and toxic masculinity.

Strengths

• Data is derived from a defined Participatory Action Research project with a clear methodological framework.
• Includes multiple file formats (PDF, XLSX) totaling 642.5 KB, suggesting a mix of documentation and structured data.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license, allowing for broad reuse and adaptation.

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The dataset's scale is small (642.5 KB), indicating a limited scope focused on a single, short-term project.
• Geographic and temporal coverage is specific to Winterveld, South Africa, in 2025, which may limit generalizability.

Provenance

Source

Maria Bettman, Department of English Studies at a South African University.

Collection Method

Practice-led research (Participatory Action Research) involving five drama workshops and Forum Theatre engagement with youth.

Time Range

Winter of 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-30 09:46:17; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Bokamoso Life Centre, Winterveld, South Africa.