The business of health care has effectively muffled, if not silenced the voice of communities. The real needs of communities are often overlooked as health care dollars, programs and initiatives are rolled out in an effort to “fix” what is believed to be broken. The result is a labeling of individuals and communities as “non-compliant” […]
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Recent events of health care reform have put a spotlight on the political aspects of health policy development on the national scale. The same consideration should be brought to the local and regional discussion. AR and CBPR are looking at questions of health care policy and the practical involvement of the community of recipients in service determination. I think […]
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Think about the person who did the most to mentor you. What three words would you use to describe this individual? This is the question I asked the participants in last week’s Teaching Research Ethics workshop to consider. Then I asked them to write down these three words on post-it notes and we collected all […]
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I spend quite a bit of my free time covered in mud. Several times a week I head to a pottery studio where I make all manner of vessels for mostly practical purposes. Because I tend to think about things in images or pictures– I’ve included a picture of me and one of my daughters […]
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Hello and happy Monday, As an activist-scholar I am Dionysian in my initial approach to “research.” Today, I introduce a series of video’s that explore what Heron and Reason refer to as co-operative inquiry cycles. This method is outlined in chapter 12 of the Handbook of Action Research (2008) and discusses the transpersonal inquiry of […]
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