Taking part in adolescent sexual health promotion in Peru: community participation from a social psychological perspective

Ramella, Marcelo; Cruz, Rosa Bravo De La

doi:10.1002/1099-1298(200007/08)10:4<271::aid-casp583>3.3.co;2-8

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“…Joss's (Indigenous Australian) comment illustrates this point: …the things [previous events before The Seeming] that were happening, were happening more in isolation, not involving the wider community…people might think, "O, well, this isn't for black fellas or the other way around, well this isn't for white fellas" you know, … I think it [The Seeming] really just brought out how diverse the community is In this account, it is the dialogues or the 'coming together' aspects of the project that enabled people to challenge the prejudices and stereotypes they have about others and their community. As noted by Ramella and De La Cruz (2000), this current study also finds that the inter-subjective and communicative aspects of participatory process have enabled the process of reflexivity among the participants which in turn enabled them to have a critical perception on their world. It is this critical perception that eventually encourages the participants to question prejudices and stereotypes (Haedicke & Nellhaus, 2001).…”

Section: Challenging Prejudice and Stereotypessupporting

confidence: 71%

Exploring the meaning of participation in a community art project: A case study on the Seeming project

Madyaningrum

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2010

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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In Australia, community art has drawn significant research attention in regard to its potential as a community development strategy. Despite the fact that researchers have presented evidence for the positive developmental outcomes of participation in community art projects, a gap remains in understanding how and why people's participation in a community art project can lead to those positive outcomes. Aiming to respond to this gap, this research explored the meaning of participation in a community art project from the vantage point of the people who experience it. Ten participants were interviewed about their participation in a community art project (The Seeming) held in Bendigo, Australia. Following thematic analyses we found that participation in arts practice facilitates positive developmental outcomes as it encourages dialogues and initiates the emergence of critical reflexivity among the participants. By participating in the project, the participants were exposed to stories, individuals and community groups that they never have contact with before. Later, this exposure encourages the participants to develop critical review on their previous knowledge and beliefs about themselves, others and their community. The finding highlighted the potential of community arts projects for promoting the creation of new relationships and new stories about community.

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Section: Challenging Prejudice and Stereotypessupporting

confidence: 71%

Exploring the meaning of participation in a community art project: A case study on the Seeming project

Madyaningrum

Sonn

2010

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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“…The relevance of enabling lay actors to become "empowered" participants in health promotion as introduced in three articles (Baillie et al, 2000, Ramella and de la Cruz, 2000, Campbell and Jovchelovitch, 2000 draws on Habermas' concept of "emancipatory interest" and/or Freire's notion of "critical consciousness". We suggest that both theories have a common understanding of communicative arrangements.…”

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“…Two papers (Campbell and Jovchelovitch, 2000;Ramella and de la Cruz, 2000) draw on the critical pedagogy of Freire (1970) to argue that participatory dialogue between health professional and lay people is a pre-condition for successful health promotion.…”

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“…Moreover, health promoters themselves may (consciously or not) strongly voice their perspectives, while the opinions of others remain unheard. Baillie et al (2000) and Ramella and de la Cruz (2000) introduce Habermas' (1984) theory of communicative action as a device to distinguish strategic and systematically distorted communication from open communication. Communicative action, according to Habermas, is oriented towards mutual understanding and basic social action.…”

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Theorizing participation in health promotion: A literature review

2012

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Participation is a key principle in health promotion. Numerous methods and tools are available and several models are used to guide and evaluate participatory endeavours in the health field. Recently, however, the lack of conceptual clarity and the normative underpinning of participation have been criticized and more substantiation by social theories has been suggested. To identify theoretical approaches applied to the topic so far and elaborate their potential contribution, a systematic literature review was conducted. Very few papers were identified that included substantial use of social theories. Their main arguments were grouped and critically discussed within a framework of three key questions. The first analyses the functions of participation and expands either the 'democratic' or 'utilitarian' perspective commonly suggested. The second asks how lay actors can be constituted as interested and competent stakeholders within their socio-political environments. The third complements an actor-focused perspective by elaborating participatory processes as asymmetric and conflictual. We conclude that the theoretical contributions available offer relevant stimulation for the conceptualization and implementation of participation in health promotion. Future theoretical work could benefit from cross-fertilization with theoretical debates in other areas of health promotion and from more explicitly elaborating the social context within which participation takes place.

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“…An over-emphasis on negative freedom in many attempts to theorize participation might help to explain the apparent agreement, or 'perverse confluence' (Dagnino, 2011), between participatory democracy and neo-liberal marketization agendas that has been observed by some health researchers (Ramella and De La Cruz, 2000). This 'agreement' is felt to be an acute problem by leftist proponents of participatory democracy.…”

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Theorising participatory practice and alienation in health research: A materialist approach

2015

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Health inequalities research has shown a growing interest in participatory ways of working. However, the theoretical ideas underpinning mainstream approaches to participation remain underexplored. This article contributes to theorising participatory practice for the kind of egalitarian politics to which many of those focused on reducing health inequalities are committed. First, we argue that the ambitions of participatory practice should be concentrated on 'overcoming alienation', rather than 'attaining freedom from power'. An overemphasis on negative freedom may help to explain a worrying confluence between participatory democracy and neo-liberal marketization agendas -we look instead to traditions of participatory practice that emphasize positive freedom and capacities for collaboration. Second, we discuss some such perspectives though consideration of critical pedagogy, but highlighting the role of materialised relations of authority, spaces, objects and encounters. Third, we explore the relationship between objectivity and alienation, arguing that participatory politics, against alienation, can look to reclaim objectivity for participatory, lively, practice. We then seek to show that participatory practice can play a role in creating common knowledge and culture, and in fostering a sense of public ownership over objective knowledge and institutions concerned with health. We conclude by asking what this looks like in practice, drawing some 'rules of thumb' for participatory practice in health inequalities research from existing inspiring examples.

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Taking part in adolescent sexual health promotion in Peru: community participation from a social psychological perspective

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Exploring the meaning of participation in a community art project: A case study on the Seeming project

Exploring the meaning of participation in a community art project: A case study on the Seeming project

Theorizing participation in health promotion: A literature review

Theorising participatory practice and alienation in health research: A materialist approach

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