Because individuals, their families and communities are faced with the challenges of daily life, solutions and support need to be found to overcome these challenges. For social transformation to take place, and in particular educational changes, the involvement and participation of all role players in educational research is needed. As O’Hanlon avers: “Without personal involvement in learning we simply reproduce the existing hegemony through the repetition of traditional orthodoxy” (2003:101). He adds that: “There is a need for an interpretive, discursive, inclusive and democratic investigatory process to keep abreast of necessary social change.” (O’Hanlon 2003:117). Participatory educational research is committed to developing knowledge through mutual co-construction.