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Community Asset Map** as a Method to Foster Social Inclusion
To stimulate active participation and inclusion of community members, research has to disrupt orthodox approaches and methods that are embedded in exclusionary practices. Community asset map** (CAM), which i...
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Picturing Disaster: Participatory Photovoice Research with a Flood-Affected Indigenous Community
Photovoice is a visual qualitative research method designed to convey participants’ experiences and perspectives through photography. Intended for participatory projects, the method is guided by goals of empow...
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The Role of Arts Therapy on Fostering Social Inclusion in the Education System
In recent decades, the field of arts therapy has expanded and entered the education system. Within this system, arts therapy promotes the emotional and social inclusion of students with special needs. A system...
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Social Inclusion and Research
Research is an endeavor marked by privilege and authority, prone to misconduct, and shaped by responsibilities and relationships. Ethical issues undeniably permeate all research, and it is important that quest...
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Towards a Real Social Inclusion for Indigenous Australians
Indigenous Australians are among of the most disadvantaged people in Australia. The origins of this disadvantage is the processes of social exclusion embodied in colonization and the original act of dispossess...
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Researching Older Women’s Experiences of Homelessness Through Visual and Sensory Methods
Australia has an aging population, with housing insecurity and homelessness an increasingly significant issue, particularly for older, single women. An in-depth understanding of the issues facing older women e...
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Centring Participants’ Voices as Inclusive Research Practice
This chapter is drawn from a Photovoice project with 12 formerly incarcerated South Australians. Photovoice is a participatory action research method, informed by a theoretical structure combining Paulo Freire...
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Diary Method and Research on Breastfeeding with Working Mothers in Malaysia
This chapter presents the authors research that qualitatively examined the perceptions and experiences of infant feeding among working women in urban Malaysia. Exploring qualitatively enabled the researchers t...
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Social Inclusion and Medical Practitioners
Medical practitioners, regardless of their roles or career paths, should understand social inclusion and exclusion and their effects on health and health risk factors, health-care accessibility, treatments and...
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Social Inclusion and the Role of Housing
There is increasing research evidence that secure, decent, and affordable housing is a necessary foundation for individuals to participate in economic, social, and cultural life. The chapter begins with a brie...
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Dementia and Social Inclusion-Exclusion
This chapter outlines the connections between dementia, social disadvantage, and social exclusion. It draws on original research to discuss the conceptual and practical implications of applying a social inclus...
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Social Inclusion, Research, and Practices in the Health and Social Sciences: Setting the Scene
Social inclusion emerged as a concept to respond to the increase of socially excluded and marginalized populations in the 1980s and 1990s. It has echoed pragmatics of “social, economic, and political participa...
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Photo Elicitation and Drawing Methods in Research with People with Physical Disabilities
Researching people with disabilities and a sensitive topic can be a great challenge for any researcher. An Nguyen, the first author, lives with a physical disability. She is also a social researcher. She has b...
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Participatory Research and Theoretical Lenses
Participatory research (PR) refers to a distinction ideology of social research and social life, what Orlando Fals Borda coins as vivéncia (human forms of social life). PR has its close association with social tr...
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Youth-Led Arts-Based Participatory Action Research
This chapter discusses how youth-led arts-based participatory action research (PAR) impacts social inclusion of youth. Youth-led arts-based PAR refers to the process where the researchers (the youth leaders) a...
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Social Inclusion and the Role of Psychologists
This chapter provides an overview of theory and research on the psychology of social inclusion and exclusion and, in particular, the impact that being socially included or excluded can have on physical health ...
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The Slow Progress to Social Inclusion in Policing
Police are expected to maintain public order and control crime while also protecting the communities they serve. This dual responsibility has been described as an “impossible mandate.” Vulnerable populations, ...
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Homelessness and Social Inclusion
This chapter introduces the field of homelessness and social inclusion. It focuses in particular on the significance of homelessness as the result of severe social disadvantage over the course of an individual...
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Social Interaction and Social Inclusion in International Rural Health Research
There are particular attributes of rural communities that shape inclusion and exclusion in these settings. Social inclusion, or the opportunity for participation and access, together with its opposite, social ...
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Participatory Research
An increased use of the participatory research (PR) approach in health and social sciences has been witnessed in recent years. PR brings forth local knowledge and action that can uniquely help to address socia...