Theoretical frameworkĪ social constructivist approach informed the framework of this study. From a social constructivist viewpoint, an individual’s experience of reality and the meaning they give to phenomena (values, beliefs, experiences) are influenced by societal and cultural norms operating at the time. From a social constructivist perspective, their ‘constructions’ of the world, or ways of knowing and being in the world, are produced through the interactions with other people, places, systems and beliefs that exist at any one point in time.