Unmasking the predicament of cultural voyeurism: a postcolonial analysis of international nursing placements

Racine, Louise; Perron, Amélie

doi:10.1111/j.1440-1800.2011.00555.x

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“…Global citizenship thus embraces both social responsibility and social justice (Mill, Astle, Ogilvie, & Gastaldo, 2010). International clinical placements have been advocated as a means to raise such critical awareness of global and local health issues (Hanson, 2010), yet these international experiences may unintentionally result in oppressive practices (Racine & Perron, 2011;Wehbi, 2009).…”

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Motivation and International Clinical Placements: Shifting Nursing Students to a Global Citizenship Perspective

Burgess

Reimer‐Kirkham

Astle

2014

International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship

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AbstractNursing programs are increasingly offering international clinical experiences as part of nursing curricula. The purpose of this study was to understand what motivates student nurses to take part in these experiences. Related to motivation, student awareness of emerging nursing discourses on global citizenship was also examined. As part of a qualitative study, nine undergraduate nursing students were interviewed about their motivations for choosing a clinical placement to a low-income country. While students appeared to have a sincere desire to make a difference, closer examination of the data revealed that the majority approached their international clinical placement in ways that could be construed as paternalistic to some degree, rather than reflective of broader professional imperatives such as social justice. This finding suggests that additional education preparation may be needed prior to these experiences; global citizenship frameworks may be helpful in shifting perspectives towards a more critical enquiry of global issues.

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confidence: 99%

Motivation and International Clinical Placements: Shifting Nursing Students to a Global Citizenship Perspective

Burgess

Reimer‐Kirkham

Astle

2014

International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship

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“…This implies culture only belongs to an exotic, different or abject other and perpetuates damaging stereotypes. Uncritical views on culture fail to address questions of systemic racism or power (Culley , Racine & Perron ), ignore the importance of intersectionality (Van Mens‐Verhulst & Radtke ), and can entail an unwitting collusion with dominant, normative and oppressive practices (Blackford , Aranda , Zeeman et al . ).…”

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Let's go outside: using photography to explore values and culture in mental health nursing

Aranda

Goeas

Davies

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Psychiatric Ment Health Nurs

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Creative and imaginative approaches to mental healthcare education are known to help students explore emotions, empathy and others' experiences, as well as address ambivalence and ambiguity. Very few studies in mental health nursing education specifically utilise photography as a participatory pedagogic tool, with even fewer utilising photography to explore understandings of culture, values and diversity. Photography makes visible complex, collaborative forms of learning and previously unidentified, unarticulated ideas about culture and values. Photography as a critical pedagogic method helps develop critical, politicized understandings of culture and values. Increasing culturally diverse populations means complex and conflicting values have become a common feature in mental health nursing. In education the need to critically examine such topics necessitates creative and engaging pedagogy, and visual methods are readily acknowledged as such. Yet while many studies advocate and demonstrate the value of art-based methods in student learning, very few studies in mental health nursing specifically utilize photography as a participatory pedagogic tool, and fewer still use photography to explore understandings of culture, values and diversity. In this paper, we discuss a qualitative study where mental health nursing students used photography to create images in order to explore their own and often dominant culture and attendant values. Findings suggest that photography makes visible situated, relational and collaborative learning, and surfaces previously unidentified, unarticulated ideas about culture and values. These practices mimic important processes central to mental health nursing practice and contemporaneous understandings of diverse cultures. We argue that photography provides an important resource with which to unearth subjugated knowledge, promote critical understandings of culture and values, and thereby help address inequalities in mental health care.

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“…The concept of cultural safety calls for a shift from viewing nursing education as what Ramsden and Spoonley () term ‘a value‐neutral activity’ to acknowledging it as ‘a politically charged process’ (as cited in Racine & Perron, , p. 198). Through this shift, we create an opportunity for students to participate in the political process with the ultimate goal of taking action.…”

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Enhancing cultural safety among undergraduate nursing students through watching documentaries

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The purpose of the study was to develop an understanding of how nursing students gained perspective on nursing care of diverse populations through watching documentaries in a cultural diversity course. The basis of this paper is our analyses of students’ written responses and reactions to documentaries viewed in class. The guiding theoretical frameworks for the course content and the study included postcolonial feminism, Foucauldian thought, and cultural safety. Krathwohl's Taxonomy of the Affective Domain was used to identify themes and determine how undergraduate nursing students were progressing in achieving learning outcomes. Our findings suggest that while the use of documentaries serves as a tool for deepening students’ understanding of the realities of various populations, this activity, in the absence of critical reflection, may inadvertently promote stereotypes and further marginalize different people groups. Even though nursing students reflected on the importance of cultural safety in nursing, our findings indicate that their actions may not reflect this, especially since these students are in the early stages of the nursing program. Students need to be provided with a space where they can explore implicit biases evoked by exposure to new information about different people groups as a way of enhancing culturally safe care.

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Unmasking the predicament of cultural voyeurism: a postcolonial analysis of international nursing placements

Cited by 43 publications

References 71 publications

Motivation and International Clinical Placements: Shifting Nursing Students to a Global Citizenship Perspective

Motivation and International Clinical Placements: Shifting Nursing Students to a Global Citizenship Perspective

Let's go outside: using photography to explore values and culture in mental health nursing

Enhancing cultural safety among undergraduate nursing students through watching documentaries

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