Using Photovoice as a Tool to Engage Social Work Students in Social Justice

Peabody, Carolyn G.

doi:10.1080/08841233.2013.795922

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“…DeRigre, 2011) and other concentrations (Essex & Massat, ) to PP learning. The described PP activities were applied in diverse types of courses and not only in policy or community practice courses (Gibbons & Gray, ; Peabody, ; Scott, ; Weiler & Sherraden, ).…”

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“…For example, Stone, Ekman, English, and Fujimori () described a pedagogical method that involves students and faculty from schools of social work and journalism to create a single‐issue magazine focused on social welfare issues. In two other articles, photovoice (Peabody, ) and videos (Tetloff et al, ) are presented as a means for strengthening students’ critical consciousness and for working with communities for policy changes (see also Johnson, on the use of photovoice).…”

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Policy practice in social work education: A literature review

Weiss‐Gal

2016

Int J Soc Welfare

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social work curricula; research on students' preferences with regard to PP; recommendations on what to include in PP education; descriptions of actual pedagogical methods and courses; evaluations of actual pedagogical methods; and tools for assessing PP competencies. Most of this discourse was devoted to descriptions of PP courses and teaching methods and much less to systematic evaluation of PP teaching. Key Practitioner Message: • Policy practice education is playing a growing role in social work training at both the Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) and Master of Social Work (MSW) levels; • The literature suggests a wide range of innovative experiential approaches in class and in actual policy arenas; • To further strengthen the field, systematic evaluations of policy practice teaching innovations are required.

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Policy practice in social work education: A literature review

Weiss‐Gal

2016

Int J Soc Welfare

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“…Photovoice is a visual participatory methodology that enables participants to represent their subjective perspectives and experiences of emerging issues through self-captured images. [13] It has been found useful in studies that have explored youth perspectives on HIV and AIDS stigma, [14] relationships and sexuality [15] and gender-based violence. [16] Focus-group discussions were arranged for the participants to present and discuss their pictures in more depth.…”

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Speaking through pictures: Canvassing adolescent risk behaviours in a semi-rural community in KwaZulu-Natal

2018

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Adolescent health and behaviours have received increasing attention in the last decade, with several studies considering the impact of risk behaviours on adolescent health and wellbeing. [1,2] Adolescents are defined by the World Health Organization as young persons between 10 and 19 years old. [3] Two issues of particular concern in South Africa include the harmful use of alcohol and illicit drugs, and risky sexual practices, by adolescents. Surveillance statistics indicate that 49.2% of South African school-going youth have used alcohol and 25.1% of these youth have engaged in binge drinking. [4] Furthermore, 26% of all persons admitted to substance abuse rehabilitation facilities in 2016 were under the age of 20 years. [5] Risky sexual behaviour is defined as sexual activities that potentially expose an individual to sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and unplanned pregnancy. [6] These include unprotected sex, early sexual debut, inconsistent condom use, alcohol or drug use before sexual intercourse, multiple sexual partners, forced or coerced sexual intercourse for reward, and low frequency of contraceptive use. [7,8] More than a quarter of South African school-going youth have had sex, 12% of whom had sexual debut before 14 years of age. [4] Early sexual debut increases the risk of HIV infection at a very early age. [9] Of those who had sex, only 32.9% reported consistent condom use and 18% indicated that they had been pregnant or had made someone pregnant. [4] Almost half of those who had sex reported having had multiple sexual partners, while 17% reported having used alcohol and 13% having used drugs prior to having sex. [4] In South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal Province has the highest prevalence of HIV, consistent across all age categories, including 15-24-year-olds. [10] KwaZulu-Natal is often characterised as the epicentre of the South African HIV epidemic. While studies have explored the epidemiology of adolescent risk behaviours in South Africa, [11] fewer studies have canvassed the opinions of adolescents in peri-urban communities. A previous longitudinal study on the wellbeing of children conducted in Vulindlela, KwaZulu-Natal, [12] identified serious overlapping risk behaviours, particularly drug use and sexual behaviour among children. These observations highlighted the need for a more comprehensive understanding of how adolescents assess and negotiate risk in high-poverty, high-HIV-prevalence communities. Using a photovoice methodology, the current paper describes adolescents' representations of substance misuse and risky sexual practices in a low-resource, high-HIVprevalence peri-urban community (Vulindlela) in KwaZulu-Natal. Background. Adolescent risk behaviours, such as substance abuse and unprotected sex, are leading social and health challenges in South Africa (SA). Objective. To investigate adolescents' perspectives on the prevalence of adolescent risk behaviours in rural settings in SA. Method. Using a qualitative photovoice methodology, th...

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“…For instance, in the realm of practice, Molloy (2007) makes a strong case for photovoice by linking its value in empowering youth in enabling them to convey to adults in their lives their struggles whereas Dumbrill (2008) articulates its usefulness in improving child welfare work with refugees in Canada. The use of photovoice in teaching social work has primarily been used to demonstrate linkages between macro and micro practice at both the undergraduate and graduate levels (see Peabody, 2013;Mulder & Dull, 2014); experiential learning by way of illustrating the interaction between theory and practice by mainly engaging students with ideas about knowledge and practice (see Wehbi, 2015); as a method of teaching social justice through anti-racist and decolonizing lenses (see Wehbi et al, 2018); effective teaching of research methods (see Bonnycastle & Bonnycastle, 2015); as a flexible method that responds and attends to the diverse learning needs of students (see Massey et al, 2011); and as a mechanism that promotes self-reflection and students emerging social work identity (see Walton, 2012).…”

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Learning Through Pictures: The Integration of Reflexive Photography in Social Justice Education

Goitom

2020

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This article explores the use of reflexive photography as an experiential teaching method in teaching social justice education in an undergraduate social work program. Using critical auto-ethnography as a method, it discusses how this was built into a second-year Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) course by way of planning and application. Drawing on Freire’s concept of reflexive practice and based on the experiences of a social work educator teaching this course, the paper describes how (a) the course was designed and executed to realize student knowledge, (b) reaffirm the importance of reflexive practice for knowledge building and (c) for social transformation. On the basis of reflection from its application and student experiences, the author discusses the potential effect that integrating arts-informed teaching methods have on social justice oriented approaches to social work practice, the development of students’ practice and professional identity.

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Using Photovoice as a Tool to Engage Social Work Students in Social Justice

Cited by 51 publications

References 18 publications

Policy practice in social work education: A literature review

Policy practice in social work education: A literature review

Speaking through pictures: Canvassing adolescent risk behaviours in a semi-rural community in KwaZulu-Natal

Learning Through Pictures: The Integration of Reflexive Photography in Social Justice Education

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