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Reimagining Craft as Alternate Sustainable Community Pathways: A Community-based Participatory Exploration of Degrowth
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From beekeeping to brewing, Alberta’s craft food sector offers potential provisionary pathways toward degrowth. While many sustainable development policies are fuelled by beliefs in ecological modernisation or green growth, degrowth scholars criticize these approaches as offering empty promises...
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Student Perceptions of Participating in a Mindfulness-Based Program in School: A Photovoice-Informed Case Study
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Wellbeing in school-aged children is a systemic and growing public health concern throughout Canada and abroad. School-based health promotion initiatives which utilize a Comprehensive School Health (CSH) approach are one way to address this problem. Research using a CSH approach continues to...
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2020-01-02
SSHRC IDG awarded 2020: The objectives of the proposed project are twofold: (1) to build understandings of how youth in care and their formal mentors experience mentoring relationships, and (2) to examine the feasibility and perceived impacts of engaging in participatory research processes (more...
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First Nations children’s experiences of a culture-based peer-mentoring program using photovoice
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The Aboriginal/Indigenous Youth Mentorship Program (A/IYMP) is an after-school, peer-led, culturally framed intervention grounded in the teachings of Indigenous scholars Dr. Martin Brokenleg (Circle of Courage) and Dr. Verna Kirkness (Four R’s Model). A/IYMP is a strengths-based intervention that...
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An Exploration of the Physical Activity Experiences of Northern Aboriginal Youth: A Community-Based Participatory Research Project
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The purpose of this community-based participatory research was to explore the physical activity experiences of Northern Aboriginal youth. Drawing upon interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA; Smith, Flowers, & Larkin, 2009) as a method of inquiry, 14 Aboriginal youth between the ages of 13-19...
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Fall 2017
In nursing education, preceptorship practica typically occur at the end of the undergraduate nursing program and are intended to consolidate learning as the student prepares to enter practice. Nursing students are evaluated throughout the preceptorship in part related to their ability to manage...
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How Do Health Behaviours Acquired at School Translate into the Home? The Exploration of a Photovoice Project Among Students in APPLE Schools
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The prevalence of sedentary behaviours, physical inactivity, and poor diets is a major public health concern in Canada and worldwide. School and home environments play a significant role in influencing such behaviours, and are ideal settings for health promotion interventions. Educational...
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2016-11-04
Nieuwendyk, Laura M., Vallianatos, Helen, Belon, Ana Paula, Nykiforuk, Candace I.J.
People's perceptions of local food environments influence their abilities to eat healthily. PhotoVoice participants from four communities in Alberta, Canada took pictures of barriers and opportunities for healthy eating and shared their stories in one-on-one semi-structured interviews. Using a...
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How perceptions of community environment influence health behaviours: using the Analysis Grid for Environments Linked to Obesity Framework as a mechanism for exploration
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Belon, A.P., Schopflocher, D., Nykiforuk, C.I., Plotnikoff, , Nieuwendyk, L.M., Raine, K.D., Vallianatos, H., Spence, J.C.
Introduction: Overweight and obesity are influenced by a complex interplay of individual and environmental factors that affect physical activity and healthy eating. Nevertheless, little has been reported on people's perceptions of those factors. Addressing this critical gap and community partner...
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2015
Nieuwendyk, Laura., Hammer, Brent , Vallianatos, Helen , Nykiforuk, Candace I.J.
Peoples’ perceptions of healthy eating are influenced by the cultural context in which they occur. Despite this general acceptance by health practitioners and social scientists, studies suggest that there remains a relative homogeneity around peoples’ perceptions that informs a hegemonic...