Picturing creative approaches to social work research: Using photography to promote social change

Jarldorn, Michele

doi:10.11157/anzswj-vol28iss4id293

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“…Student confidence is supported, and they are empowered to come up with new ideas to solve problems and reflect on a theory and practice as a "whole" [8]. Creativity can make a difference at micro, meso and macro levels by giving voice to people [9,10], promoting the role of art and developing communication [11] and exploring options for sustainable living [12].…”

Section: Creative Methods: What Why and How?mentioning

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Teaching Innovations in Social Work Education

Wolmesjö¹

2020

Global Social Work - Cutting Edge Issues and Critical Reflections

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The aim of this chapter is to discuss how the use of creative methods can support students to become aware of global social challenges and give opportunity to reflect on sustainable solutions in relation to different social contexts. Further on, the aim is to discuss preconditions needed. The method used is Future workshop, which is combined with other creative methods as storytelling, scenario, painting, drama, reflective thinking, etc. Data is gathered, from a Swedish perspective during 20 years of being a social worker, lecturer and researcher in social work and national and international collaboration. Results shows, by using different creative methods in education and research, students are allowed to "think outside the box" and new perspectives on common challenges and solutions can be identified. This chapter intends to contribute to a discussion of preconditions needed for using creative methods and multidisciplinary collaboration in the social work programme. The conclusion is working with creative methods needs lecturers who have knowledge of different methods, flexibility to choose between those and confidence in the students to find new solutions. The biggest challenge is not the students, it's often other colleagues. Support from the managerial level is therefore crucial when introducing creative teaching methods in social work education.

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Section: Creative Methods: What Why and How?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Teaching Innovations in Social Work Education

Wolmesjö¹

2020

Global Social Work - Cutting Edge Issues and Critical Reflections

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“…“Stella” (not her real name) was the final contributor (nine women and three men) in a Photovoice project I created to learn about the post-release experiences of people who had been held in prison in South Australia (see Jarldorn, 2016, 2018a, 2018b; Jarldorn & Deer, 2017). Participants were invited to generate images to help them explain their experience and were guided by the deliberately broad research question, “If you had the opportunity, what would you tell a policy maker or politician about your postrelease experience?” Once Stella had created her data, I met with her in her home to hear the stories behind the images.…”

Section: Using Photovoice To Learn From Former Prisoners: Methods and mentioning

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Radically Rethinking Social Work in the Criminal (in)Justice System in Australia

Jarldorn

2019

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Historically, research on prisons and prisoners privileges an individualizing framework, when in fact the prison experience is strongly tied to social stratification and collective identities. Informed by the data created for a Photovoice project with former prisoners in South Australia, I contend that contemporary “criminological” knowledge tends to individualize crime through its own privileged view of the world. This individualizing approach seeps into the ways in which criminalized women experience release into the community after a prison sentence, confirming that society does not believe that imprisonment furnishes any form of “rehabilitation.” There can be no separation between capitalism, the prison industrial complex (PIC), and the violence present in carceral settings. This violence, although to a lesser extent than prisoners, is experienced by social workers selling their labor power within the PIC who are co-opted into believing that they can “make a difference.” Yet, social workers, whose codes of ethics are grounded in a framework of human rights, are witness to abuses of human rights on a daily basis within the PIC. Instead of making a difference, they are coerced into silence and roles of social control. The argument proposed here suggests that social workers must radically rethink the place and purpose of prisons by considering them as a violent response by the state to structural social problems that are experienced as politically perpetrated misery and oppression.

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“…The research I used the participatory action research tool called Photovoice to hear from nine women and three men who had all spent time in prison in South Australia (Jarldorn, 2016a(Jarldorn, , 2016b. Usually used within a group setting, for this project I modified the method used by Wang and Burris (1997), meeting with participants individually.…”

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“…Then I provided each participant with a single use camera, a small instructional handbook I had created for the project and their research question: 'if you had fifteen minutes with a policy maker or politician what would you want them to know about your experience?' Participants were then asked to take photographs that represented those experiences (for more, see Jarldorn, 2016aJarldorn, , 2016b.…”

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Participatory action research with ex-prisoners: Using Photovoice and one woman’s story told through poetry

Jarldorn

Deer

2017

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This paper provides an unexpected and extraordinary example of research data from a Photovoice project conducted with ex-prisoners in South Australia. It focusses on the contribution made by one of the participants who chose the pseudonym ‘Deer’. Deer joins me as a co-author, her voice shines in this paper, albeit through a pseudonym she chose for the project. Photovoice, a qualitative research method, uses a feminist framework and typically produces rich thick accounts of lives and experiences that cannot be adequately captured by quantitative research. Both qualitative and quantitative methods of research data collection each have merits, but qualitative approaches tend to engage the researcher, participant and later the reader on a more personal level. Moreover, unexpected findings are more likely to arise when researchers ask participants to express what they believe is important to their experience. This paper provides such an example, where the unexpected gift of poetry adds a deeper dimension to research findings.

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Picturing creative approaches to social work research: Using photography to promote social change

Cited by 8 publications

References 28 publications

Teaching Innovations in Social Work Education

Teaching Innovations in Social Work Education

Radically Rethinking Social Work in the Criminal (in)Justice System in Australia

Participatory action research with ex-prisoners: Using Photovoice and one woman’s story told through poetry

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