Using Critical and Creative Thinking Strategies to Enhance the Photovoice Experience: A Clinical Focus

Format Type

Plenary

Format Type

Workshop

Start Date

13-1-2021 1:30 PM

End Date

13-1-2021 2:20 PM

Abstract

Critical thinking is an intellectual process that entails evaluating, applying, analyzing, conceptualizing, or restructuring information i, to inform viewpoints and/or incite action. Since the mid-1900s, creative thinking has emerged as a complement to critical thinking. ii, iii Creative thinking involves developing new ideas – alone or in groups – to address problems or support strengths identified through critical thinking. As individuals or groups, we use critical and creative thinking in an ongoing, iterative process that informs our viewpoints, our perceptions of our lives and circumstances, and our thoughts about ways to realize advocacy or action.

Photovoice involves placing cameras in the hands of research participants and patients, who become visual researchers as they take photos and interpret the personal experiences, preferences, and hopes they represent. Photovoice provides opportunities to see with new eyes, benefits to the individual, the project, and society. Using Photovoice methods with people who have intellectual or cognitive disabilities is ethical public health practice when it encourages critical and creative thinking that leads to shared decision-making, inclusion, and self-determination in policy and practice.

Workshop participants will be exposed to definitions and examples of ways that critical and creative thinking have enhanced Photovoice projects. With a focus on individuals who have intellectual, cognitive, and/or communication challenges, presenters will discuss opportunities to incite critical and creative thinking at each stage of the method and provide sample scenarios of when and how these strategies can be used in research and clinical care. An interactive exercise will provide practice with the strategies shared.

Keywords

Photovoice, critical thinking, creative thinking, disabilities, inclusion, public health

Comments

I'm adding references here as I'm not sure if they should be with the main proposal or not. We cite them in the abstract.

References:

  1. The Foundation for Critical thinking (n.d.) Defining critical thinking. Retrieved on 10/5/20 from: https://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/defining-critical-thinking/766
  2. Ennis, R. (2011). Critical Thinking: Reflection and Perspective Part I. Inquiry. 26(1), pp. 4-18. https://doi.org/10.5840/inquiryctnews20112613 ; Ennis, R. (2011). Critical Thinking: Reflection and Perspective Part II. Inquiry, 26(2): pp 5-19. https://doi.org/10.5840/inquiryctnews201126215.
  3. The Peak Performance Center, https://thepeakperformancecenter.com/educational-learning/thinking/critical-thinking/critical-thinking-vs-creative-thinking/

ORCID ID

0000-0003-1710-8619

ResearcherID

I-9606-2016

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Using Critical and Creative Thinking Strategies to Enhance the Photovoice Experience: A Clinical Focus

Critical thinking is an intellectual process that entails evaluating, applying, analyzing, conceptualizing, or restructuring information i, to inform viewpoints and/or incite action. Since the mid-1900s, creative thinking has emerged as a complement to critical thinking. ii, iii Creative thinking involves developing new ideas – alone or in groups – to address problems or support strengths identified through critical thinking. As individuals or groups, we use critical and creative thinking in an ongoing, iterative process that informs our viewpoints, our perceptions of our lives and circumstances, and our thoughts about ways to realize advocacy or action.

Photovoice involves placing cameras in the hands of research participants and patients, who become visual researchers as they take photos and interpret the personal experiences, preferences, and hopes they represent. Photovoice provides opportunities to see with new eyes, benefits to the individual, the project, and society. Using Photovoice methods with people who have intellectual or cognitive disabilities is ethical public health practice when it encourages critical and creative thinking that leads to shared decision-making, inclusion, and self-determination in policy and practice.

Workshop participants will be exposed to definitions and examples of ways that critical and creative thinking have enhanced Photovoice projects. With a focus on individuals who have intellectual, cognitive, and/or communication challenges, presenters will discuss opportunities to incite critical and creative thinking at each stage of the method and provide sample scenarios of when and how these strategies can be used in research and clinical care. An interactive exercise will provide practice with the strategies shared.