Art Explore: An Intervention in Community Psychology

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2003-12
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Indiana University South Bend
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Art Explore, an intervention, is an ongoing collaboration between The A4 Online Project housed at The Ningizimu School for the Severely Mentally Retarded in Durban, South Africa and the Social Action Project (SOCACT) housed in the psychology department at Indiana University South Bend. As a community psychology research project, SOCACT is a grassroots organization that functions from the bottom up; the components consist of Poetry Jams, Homosexuality and Addictions, Youth Community Theatre. Recovery International is the replication of each component in Durban, South Africa. Art Explore is conducted through the Youth Community Theater component. The purpose of Art Explore is to assist (dis)abled youths in articulating their goals of social responsibility and to foster a sense of belonging using empowerment techniques. To empower (dis )ab led children by using self-efficacy theory: in essence being concerned not with the numbers of skills the children have, but with what is believed can be done with what they have under a variety of circumstances. The methodology of data collection for Art Explore was a triangulation of multiple sources consisting of 1) Logbooks, 2) Self- Reports (Surveys), and 3) Visual Symbols (banners). The analysis of the project will include: qualitative analysis of logs, use of coding system with discrete categories, content analysis of the images on the banners, comparison of findings from analysis to theoretical framework, and lastly the interpretations and conclusions will be based on what is confirmed and what remains unexplained.
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Thesis (M.Lib.St.) Indiana University South Bend, 2003
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