‘O’ofaki: a health promotion and community development concept to bring Pasifika people together

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malakai Ofanoa ◽  
Janine Paynter ◽  
Stephen Buetow
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Lead Author ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Research Model ◽  
Development Concept ◽  
The Way

Abstract Stable, healthy families are the loto or heart of strong Pacific communities. This paper addresses the problem of a decline in the strength of Pacific families. It introduces and discusses the Tongan concept of O’ofaki, as the way in which shared, core relational commitments can bring Pasifika peoples together to support one another for health and community development. This process is based on a reciprocal sharing of social capital to promote cultural solidarity and social justice. We describe two studies by the lead author, through which the concept of O’ofaki emerged. The first study utilized an action research model while the second study focused on two Pasifika-centric research approaches: talanga, which is a Tongan word for interactive talking for a purpose, and the kakala (Tongan garland) research approach. The latter approach is incorporated within a general inductive methodology as well as luva—the dissemination of the results. Finally, the paper focuses on the components of O’ofaki and its application to Pasifika communities.

scholarly journals Posdaya Bina Sejahtera Kota Bogor sebagai Model Pemberdayaan Kemandirian Masyarakat Akar Rumput

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Yannefri Bachtiar
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Household Waste ◽  
Health Economy ◽  
Implementation Phase ◽  
Grass Root ◽  
Capital Development

As a part of the concern to the grass root society, Bogor Agricultural University had been established family empowerment station (Posdaya) the model of community development since 2007. The purpose of Posdaya is to increase the capacity of grass root society to fulfil their need of live by their social capital development. For this purposes the action research was done to explore the appropriate strategy for social facilitation approach in developing their capacity in education, health, economy, and environment. Until 2010, there was 106 Posdaya at Bogor, Cianjur, and Sukabumi area. Posdaya Bina Sejahtera Kelurahan Pasir Mulya Bogor was one of a good example in developing Posdaya that has been established at 8<sup>th</sup> May 2007. In the initiative phase, several activities had been done, included survey of the potency of community development, mini-workshop, meeting, training, coordinating, and empowering. In the implementation phase, several result had been yielded included organizational establishment, action plan, readiness of cadre, core activities development in education (pre-school and moving library), health services (post health services, geriatric health services, children family planning), economy (<em>syari’ah</em> microfinance institutionalization, small business for food production, and handy-craft), environment (environmental based agribusiness and household waste management). Action research concluded that Posdaya was empowerment strategy in developing grass root society by bottom up program on their self-reliance capacity in using local and potential resources. Posdaya was the institutionalization of social capital that relevant to the need of grass root society in developing education, health, economy, and environment. By these approach Posdaya considered as a proved model of community development in developing both physical and non physical of the society.

People, power and communities.

2021 ◽  
pp. 41-74
Author(s):  
Louise Warwick-Booth ◽  
Sally Foster
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
Lay Involvement

Abstract This book chapter seeks to: (i) explore 'the community' as a vital context for health promotion; (ii) explore different meanings of community participation, engagement, community involvement and community development; (iii) discuss the importance of social capital; (iv) explore the role of lay involvement in health promotion; and (v) suggest that working with communities and not merely in communities is essential for resilience and wellbeing.

Radicalising Community Development within Social Work through Popular Education—A Participatory Action Research Project

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (8) ◽  
pp. 2207-2225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Westoby ◽  
Athena Lathouras ◽  
Lynda Shevellar
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Action Learning ◽  
Popular Education ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
Action Research Approach

AbstractThis article reports upon the efforts of three social work/social science academics in partnership with social and community practitioners, at radicalising community development (CD) within social work. The project was motivated by painful political events and processes unfolding around the world in 2017 and led to the design of a participatory action research approach with thirty-three practitioners. Engaging in several cycles of research (pre- and post questionnaires, observation, focus groups and interviews) and action learning (a popular education knowledge exchange day, a community of practice day and prototyping new projects) several new initiatives were implemented, including the formation of a new Popular Education Network. Reflections and discussion consider the implications of radicalising CD within social worker practice through combining education, organising and linking to progressive social movements. The article overall makes the case that popular education could be a crucial element in enabling the radicalisation of CD within social work.

Collaborative Video-Based Action Research Studies to Assess Classroom Teaching Performances and Improve Educator Programs

2018 ◽  
pp. 1003-1018
Author(s):  
Linda A. Catelli ◽  
Joan Carlino ◽  
GinaMarie Petraglia ◽  
Patricia Godek ◽  
Valerie Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Program Effectiveness ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Teacher Education Program ◽  
Classroom Teaching ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Improving Classroom Teaching ◽  
Model Research ◽  
The Way ◽  
Research Studies

Race to the Top (RttT) reforms in States around the nation have initiated changes in the way teachers are evaluated and in the way new teachers are certified. The focus of this chapter is on sets of video-based action research studies aimed at analyzing and assessing classroom teaching performances and evaluating program effectiveness in a Professional Development School (PDS) partnership setting. The studies were part of a larger longitudinal research project begun in 1998. Authors present selected sets of studies as exemplars of a model research approach for continually changing and improving classroom teaching and the PDS's integrative pre-and inservice teacher education program. Readers are provided with the research and inquiry questions of the studies, key findings, and how findings were used to provide evidence of program effectiveness.

scholarly journals Pembedayaan Masyarakat Melalui Pemanfaatan Komoditas Ketela di Desa Giricahyo

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-200
Author(s):  
Sunarsih Sunarsih
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Social Intervention ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Program Optimization ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Research ◽  
New Model ◽  
The Way

This paper tries to explore the empowering model through the function of cassava commodity as an increase of prosperous people in Giricahyo Village, Gunungkidul. Through a community-based research approach, qualitatively, a workshop for cassava commodity development has become the trend in the empowerment program. The framework to change the way of positivistic paradigm to shift more than holistic, synergic, and transdisciplinary can be claimed as a new model of social intervention. Furthermore, the study finds that assistance people can be optimized when it is paradigm implemented in the community development process. This article argues that the innovation of cassava processed in various creativity can appear new understood and knowledge for people to restricted productivity. Society has been motivated to open a new enterprise product. However, social welfare can not evaluate in this program. Optimization of cassava processed has become snack produce that it can be a solution of increasing prosperous people with the evaluation of the program.Tulisan ini mengeksplorasi model pemberdayaan melalui pemanfaatan komoditas ketela sebagai upaya untuk meningkatkan kesejahteraan masyarakat Desa Giricahyo, Gunungkidul. Melalui pendekatan community-based research, secara kualitatif, pelatihan pengembangan komoditas ketela menjadi trend dalam program pemberdayaan. Kerangka kerja dari perubahan cara pandang pemikiran positivistik ke arah yang lebih holistik, sinergis, dan transdisipliner dapat diklaim sebagai model intervensi sosial baru. Karena itu, studi ini menemukan pendampingan masyarakat dapat berjalan optimal ketika paradigma tersebut diterapkan dalam proses pemberdayaan. Artikel ini berargumentasi bahwa inovasi olahan ketela dengan beragam varian kreativitas dapat memunculkan pemahaman dan wawasan baru bagi masyarakat dalam produksi yang terbatas. Masyarakat telah termotivasi untuk membuka usaha baru. Namun demikian, tingkat kesejahteraan masyarakat tidak dapat diukur dalam program ini. Pengoptimalan pengolahan ketela menjadi makanan ringan dapat menjadi solusi untuk meningkatkan kesejahteraan dengan capaian evaluasi yang terukur.

People, power and communities.

2021 ◽  
pp. 41-74
Author(s):  
Louise Warwick-Booth ◽  
Sally Foster
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
Lay Involvement

Abstract This book chapter seeks to: (i) explore 'the community' as a vital context for health promotion; (ii) explore different meanings of community participation, engagement, community involvement and community development; (iii) discuss the importance of social capital; (iv) explore the role of lay involvement in health promotion; and (v) suggest that working with communities and not merely in communities is essential for resilience and wellbeing.

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