‘Inclusion’ and ‘Democracy’ in Education: An exploration of concepts and ideas for occupational therapists

Souza, Joana Rostirolla Batista de; Borba, Patrícia Leme de Oliveira; Pan, Lívia Celegati; Lopes, Roseli Esquerdo

doi:10.1080/14473828.2021.1921929

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“…These approaches considered local context, privileged community voices, and engaged communities in designing and solution while focusing on grassroots movements, which met non‐urban needs. These few publications represent a large tradition of counter‐hegemonic and praxis‐based epistemologies among occupational therapists in the Global South (e.g., Souza et al, 2021 ; Bianchi & Malfitano, 2022 ; Córdoba, 2021 ; Correia et al, 2021 ; Dos Santos, 2017 , 2022 ; Lopes & Malfitano, 2021 ; Monzeli et al, 2021 ; Paganizzi, 2007 ).…”

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Extension, austerity, and emergence: Themes identified from a global scoping review of non‐urban occupational therapy services

Hayes

Santos

Costigan

et al. 2022

Aus Occup Therapy J

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Introduction: Rural communities contribute to national wellbeing, identities, economies, and social fabrics yet experience increased risk of mortality, morbidity, and disability, coupled with lower levels of income, formal education, and employment than urban citizens. Despite higher need, occupational therapy services are maldistributed to urban locations. Publications about nonurban services discuss predominantly outreach-based, individualist, rehabilitation for specified diagnoses/age groups. However, given this population level inequity, it is unclear why individualist focussed services are more commonly discussed. Understanding intentions expressed in publications about nonurban service design may identify assumptions/limitations to current approaches and contribute to improved future services. Methods: Each of 117 publications identified in a scoping review was read by two reviewers to independently identify themes. Provisional themes were discussed and modified in an iterative process to develop final themes/subthemes.The first author reinterrogated the publications and coded data to identify relevant examples to support the identified themes. Results: Three key themes and nine subthemes were identified. Hegemonic perspectives were found in the themes (i) Extension of urban practice and (ii) Austerity, particularly in the Global North. Non-urban services were typically extended to non-urban contexts underpinned by austerity and neoliberal values such that non-urban persons and their context were problematised rather than service or funding design. A counter-hegemonic perspective was found in the theme (iii) Responses to situational realities more commonly in Global South publications, which valued non-urban contexts, and focussed on developing non-urban communities and promoting justice.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Extension, austerity, and emergence: Themes identified from a global scoping review of non‐urban occupational therapy services

Hayes

Santos

Costigan

et al. 2022

Aus Occup Therapy J

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An anthropophagic proposition in occupational therapy knowledge: Driving our actions towards social life

Malfitano

2022

World Federation of Occupational Therapists Bulletin

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International community of practice: learning from experiences of community development and social occupational therapy

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Peters,

Gibson

et al. 2023

Cad. Bras. Ter. Ocup.

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Introduction Increasingly, occupational therapists and scientists across the globe are calling for a shift away from individualised western medical approaches, to working with communities and collectives, and in the social field. This signals the growing motivation to engage in socially responsive and transformative practices that address political structures and oppressive colonial systems. Objective The purpose of our Community of Practice (CoP) was to explore and describe the epistemologies, vocabularies, and understandings that underpin community development and social occupational therapy within diverse global contexts to advance theoretical perspectives and practices. Method As a CoP of occupational therapy and science scholars situated in four countries (Australia, Brazil, Canada, and South Africa), we met virtually bi-monthly from March 2020 to January 2023. Scholarly work involved critical narrative literature reviews, reflexive presentations, group dialogues, and individual and collective reflections and analyses. Results Individual narratives, four thematic threads, and a selection of vocabularies and epistemologies are presented. The thematic threads were: Connecting and making space for decolonial praxis, Questioning the disconnect between occupational therapy practice and contexts, Examining vocabularies that shape contextually relevant practice, and Engaging a reflexive stance to work towards equity, justice and social rights. Conclusions Generating knowledge that supports ways of knowing, being and doing reflective of multiple languages, sciences, and contexts will strengthen occupational therapy. Maintaining the pluriversal and resisting ‘one size fits all’ approaches to human occupation/everyday life is essential. This paper offers practitioners a catalyst for initiating decolonising praxis for learning across global contexts.

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‘Inclusion’ and ‘Democracy’ in Education: An exploration of concepts and ideas for occupational therapists

Cited by 5 publications

References 10 publications

Extension, austerity, and emergence: Themes identified from a global scoping review of non‐urban occupational therapy services

Extension, austerity, and emergence: Themes identified from a global scoping review of non‐urban occupational therapy services

An anthropophagic proposition in occupational therapy knowledge: Driving our actions towards social life

International community of practice: learning from experiences of community development and social occupational therapy

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