Department of Health Sciences, Mid Sweden University, SE-831 25 Östersund, Sweden.
Health Promot Int. 2013 Sep;28(3):299-310. doi: 10.1093/heapro/das011. Epub 2012 Mar 14.
It has been highlighted that youth empowerment and participation are important principles for school health promotion. Despite this fact, children and youth are rarely given instruments to participate or to influence their situations and the environments in their schools. Photovoice is a method to increased empowerment and participation. Originally it was created as a community action research method based on Freire's critical pedagogy and feminist theory. The purpose of this study was to explore challenges and opportunities for applying photovoice in a school setting to support genuine participation. Together with teachers and students in an upper secondary school in Östersund's municipality in the north of Sweden, the photovoice method was field tested and modified to a classroom situation. The teachers and the students were interviewed about their experiences with the method. The results were interpreted by content analysis and showed that the teachers' capability to be facilitators and the students' possibility to make a difference for the school or the municipality were the most important factors to succeed with photovoice. The conclusions were that photovoice challenges schools and society to have a better structure for genuine participation if youth participation is seen as valuable.
已经强调指出，增强青年权能和参与是学校促进健康的重要原则。尽管如此，儿童和青年很少有机会参与或影响他们在学校的情况和环境。影像见证是一种增强权能和参与的方法。最初，它是基于弗莱雷的批判教育学和女权主义理论创建的一种社区行动研究方法。本研究的目的是探讨在学校环境中应用影像见证以支持真正参与的挑战和机遇。在瑞典北部厄斯特松德市的一所高中，与教师和学生一起对影像见证方法进行了实地测试和修改，以适应课堂情况。对教师和学生的经验进行了访谈。结果通过内容分析进行了解释，结果表明，教师作为促进者的能力以及学生为学校或市政当局带来改变的可能性是影像见证取得成功的最重要因素。结论是，如果青年参与被视为有价值，那么影像见证就要求学校和社会为真正的参与创造更好的结构。
