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Leveling the playing field: Promoting the health of poor women through a community development approach to recreation
No full textThe chapter, "Leveling the playing field: Promoting the health of poor women through a community development approach to recreation" was written by the listed authors including Colleen Reid (Douglas College Faculty). This thoroughly revised collection examines a wide range of gender related issues, all of which contribute to a larger body of knowledge about how gender operates as a key factor in the way sport is played, organized, and funded in Canada. -- From publisher description.book chapterPublished
Diversifying health promotion
No full textThe chapter, "Diversifying health promotion" was written by the listed authors including Colleen Reid (Douglas College Faculty). In this innovative collection, leading thinkers in clinical medicine, sociology, epidemiology, kinesiology, education, and public policy reveal how health promotion is failing communities by failing women. Despite a longstanding consensus that social inequalities shape global patterns of illness and opportunities for health, mainstream health promotion frameworks continue to ignore gender at relational, household, community, and state levels. Exploring the ways in which gendered norms affect health and social equity for all human beings, Making It Better invites us to rethink conventional approaches to health promotion and to strive for transformative initiatives and policies. Offering practical tools and evidence-based strategies for moving from gender integration to gender transformation, this anthology is required reading for policymakers, health promotion and healthcare practitioners, researchers, community developers, and social service providers. -- From publisher description.book chapterPublished
Addressing diversity and inequities in health promotion: The implications of intersectional theory
No full textThe chapter, "Addressing diversity and inequities in health promotion: The implications of intersectional theory" was written by the listed authors including Colleen Reid (Douglas College Faculty). Health Promotion in Canada is a comprehensive profile of the history and future of health promotion in Canada. Now in its third edition, it maintains the critical, sociological, and historical perspective of the previous two editions and adds a greater focus on health promotion practice.
Thoroughly updated and reorganized, the book now contains 18 chapters by prominent academics, researchers, and practitioners. The authors cover a broad range of topics, including key theories and concepts in health promotion; ecological approaches; Aboriginal approaches; health inequalities; reflexive practice; ethics; issues, populations, and settings as entry points for intervention; and the Canadian health promotion experience in a global context. Each chapter concludes with thought-provoking discussion questions and carefully chosen resources for further study, making this an ideal text for courses in health sciences, nursing, and related disciplines.book chapterPublished
Our common ground: Cultivating women’s health through community based research
No full textProvides an overview of the scope of the community based research (CBR) process as it relates to research focused on girls and womens health, and gender and health related issues. Although it is not an exhaustive guide, it is intended to give readers a solid understanding of CBR.
One of a series of four WHRN primers focused on key areas and innovative approaches in girls' and women's health and gender and health research.
Our Common Ground was developed out of a dialogue between an academic researcher with a background in gender, women’s health, and community based research (Colleen Reid); a community based researcher and practicing social worker (Robin LeDrew); and an academic researcher with training in medical physics (Elana Brief). This dialogue was supported and encouraged by the Women’s Health Research Network (WHRN) co-leaders, WHRN members, as well as attentive and engaged external reviewers.
Throughout the development of Our Common Ground we debated language, format, and the intended audience. We wanted to develop a research guide rooted in the experiences and practices of community researchers, a guide that reflected the current Community Based Research (CBR) environment, and one that can help new researchers connect with this approach. To that end we held a series of events and gatherings that were structured as conversations with individuals and groups interested in CBR. The document before you emerged from these conversations.
In Our Common Ground we provide an overview of the scope of the CBR process as it relates to research focused on girls’ and women’s health, and gender and health related issues. Although it is not an exhaustive guide, it is intended to give you a solid understanding of CBR. We hope that you find ways to use this document to help you advance your thinking about CBR, girls’ and women’s health, and gender and health, and, ultimately to identify the kind of research that most captures your passion and imagination.bookPublishe
Continuing the journey: Articulating dimensions of feminist participatory action research (FPAR)
No full textThe chapter, "Continuing the journey: articulating dimensions of feminist participatory action research (FPAR)" was written by the listed authors including Colleen Reid (Douglas College Faculty). Building on the strength of the seminal first edition, the The SAGE Handbook of Action Research has been completely updated to bring chapters in line with the latest qualitative and quantitative approaches in this field of social inquiry. Peter Reason and Hilary Bradbury have introduced new part commentaries that draw links between different contributions and show their interrelations. This volume is an essential resource for scholars and professionals engaged in social and political inquiry, organizational research and education.
The primary aim of this chapter is to begin to articulate dimensions of feminist participatory action research (FPAR). In developing the dimensions, we considered the following questions: What are the advantages of integrating feminist research, participatory action research, and action research into a FPAR framework? What epistemological and methodological dimensions should be integrated into FPAR? What questions could those involved in FPAR ask themselves to continually refine and advance how they go about conducting this type of research? We begin the chapter by providing a brief overview of recent developments in feminist research. In some depth and with the aid of guiding questions, we then articulate the dimensions of FPAR that are, in part, based on our experiences. They include: (1) centering gender and women's experiences while challenging patriarchy; (2) accounting for intersectionality; (3) honoring voice and difference through participatory research processes; (4) exploring new forms of representation; (5) reflexivity; and (6) honoring many forms of action. -- From publisher description.book chapterPublished
Feminist participatory action Research
No full textThe chapter, "Feminist participatory action Research" was written by the listed authors including Colleen Reid (Douglas College Faculty). Action research is a term used to describe a family of related approaches that integrate theory and action with a goal of addressing important organizational, community, and social issues together with those who experience them. It focuses on the creation of areas for collaborative learning and the design, enactment and evaluation of liberating actions through combining action and research, reflection and action in an ongoing cycle of cogenerative knowledge. While the roots of these methodologies go back to the 1940s, there has been a dramatic increase in research output and adoption in university curricula over the past decade. This is now an area of high popularity among academics and researchers from various fields—especially business and organization studies, education, health care, nursing, development studies, and social and community work. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Action Research brings together the many strands of action research and addresses the interplay between these disciplines by presenting a state-of-the-art overview and comprehensive breakdown of the key tenets and methods of action research as well as detailing the work of key theorists and contributors to action research.
The term feminist participatory action research (FPAR) refers to a participatory and action-oriented approach to research that centers gender and women’s experiences both theoretically and practically. In the academic and non-academic literature FPAR is referred to as a paradigm, a theory, a research framework, a conceptual framework, a research approach, and a research methodology. Most commonly FPAR is understood as a conceptual framework that enables a critical understanding of women’s multiple perspectives and works toward inclusion and social change through participatory processes while exposing researchers’ own biases and assumptions. In sum, FPAR attempts to blend the most promising aspects of feminist theories and research with participatory action research. -- From publisher description.book chapterPublished
Raising the curtain: At the intersection of education, art, health care and lived experience of dementia
No full textThe chapter, "Raising the curtain: at the intersection of education, art, health care and lived experience of dementia" was written by the listed authors including Colleen Reid (Douglas College Faculty). This chapter uses the case study of Raising the Curtain (RTC), a community based participatory research project (CBPR), to explore the opportunities and insights that resulted from an education – arts – health care collaboration. RTC occurred in a long-term care facility located in rural British Columbia and was a collaboration between researchers, artists, health care workers, and people with lived experience of dementia. The project’s goals were to: (1) increase understandings of the lived experience of dementia by highlighting the sociocultural constructions of the disease; (2) uncover innovative strategies for building an education – art – health care collaboration; and (3) spawn creative and innovative approaches to participation, engagement and advocacy for individuals with lived experience of dementia. Insights gained from RTC point to the promise of integrating creative and social justice-oriented community engagement into leisure practice. Ultimately RTC created a ‘third space’ – one that achieved a true nexus between education, art, and health care – and provided a vision for advancing leisure practice in the context of dementia-care in a long-term care (LTC) facility. --From publisher description.case studiesVIU WLCEinnovation leisure practice
Living an ethical agreement: Negotiating confidentiality and harm in feminist participatory action research
No full textThe chapter, "Living an ethical agreement: negotiating confidentiality and harm in feminist participatory action research" was written by the listed authors including Colleen Reid (Douglas College Faculty). Feminist community research is a collaborative, policy-oriented methodology that holds the promise of empowering the disadvantaged and building a more just society. But in the absence of critical analysis and the responsible use of power, this approach can lead to naive or even harmful practices.
Grounded as they are in fieldwork, the interdisciplinary case studies in this volume acknowledge the real methodological and ethical issues that researchers can encounter as they negotiate contested research relationships. The authors discuss the strategies — successful and unsuccessful — that they have employed to overcome these challenges. The authors’ collective experiences working with diverse groups, from immigrant and Aboriginal women in Vancouver to poverty-reduction practitioners in Vietnam, reveal that truly equitable research projects require that we question core concepts and address crucial issues such as the promises and limits of reflexivity; the politics of place, time, and resources; ethical dilemmas and emotional responses; and the way issues of social justice, policy, and social change are embedded in research. -- From publisher description.book chapterPublished.SociologyAnthropologyAboriginal StudiesCommunity-Based researchHealth StudiesGender StudiesWomen’s StudiesResearch Methodologie
Finding the ‘action’ in feminist participatory action research
No full textAlthough feminist researchers have increasingly called for participatory and action-oriented research, there have been few analyses of the diverse actions that can occur. We theorized the actions considered and implemented in a feminist participatory action research project (FPAR). For three years we collaborated intensively with a group of diverse women on low income who were involved in a FPAR project designed to reduce social isolation and other self-identified health problems. Our data set included tape recordings of 32 one-on-one interviews, 15 research meetings, and extensive fieldnotes. Our findings indicated that actions occurred on both individual and collective levels; some had been enacted prior to the project and were shared to promote ongoing or new actions, while others arose as a consequence of the women's involvement in the project. Additionally, some actions were implemented and actualized while others, though discussed at length, remained hopes for the future. While the research participants reported the benefits of being involved in such projects, they also spoke of the potential risks. Our findings revealed the complexities of taking action in FPAR and highlight important considerations for others wishing to engage in this type of research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]Peer reviewedFinal article published.women's healthindividual and collective actionfeminismfeminist participatory action researc
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