Carolyn Kagan
Biographic Data
| ID | 102813 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carolyn Kagan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carolyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Kagan |
| SIGNATURE | KAGAN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Manchester Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6015-6179 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 126 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Volunteering in the community
Upstanding civic action is central to individual and community well‐being, particularly when communities comprise rich and diverse membership. However, not all groups in society have the same opportunities and resources to volunteer. This is particularly true for South Asian people, who are often reported to be less likely to volunteer. Research into the experience and meanings that this ethnic group attributes to volunteering has been exceptiona…
Hope
In this end note we will revisit the primacy of the ecological crisis as a lens through which to view changing social structures, alliances and possibilities for change. We will then go on to consider ways in which critical community psychological thought and praxis can work with others to recognise the realities of people’s lives and engender hope for the future. We recognise the playfulness of the end note. Here we utilise it as a commentary on…
Research priorities for the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) that has caused the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic represents the greatest international biopsychosocial emergency the world has faced for a century, and psychological science has an integral role to offer in helping societies recover. The aim of this paper is to set out the shorter- and longer-term priorities for research in psychological science that will (a) frame t…
‘I’m not a therapist you know… I’m an artist’
The role of the artist is crucial to the success of arts for health initiatives yet remains under-explored in the research literature. This article examines the practice of arts facilitation through the lens of self-determination theory (SDT). Fourteen interviews with artists leading projects for older adults across three settings were subject to a secondary thematic analysis. A hybrid approach was adopted with themes developed inductively and de…
Feminist composite narratives of Chinese women
This contribution builds on the work Lewis has engaged in around women’s decision-making processes on work and care. Gender has been an important consideration across her work and this has been explored in familial and organisational settings. The personal is undoubtedly political and a feminist lens privileges this. Previous research (including Lewis) has marked a shift from work-life balance to work personal life integration. This implies agenc…
Participation in community arts
In this paper, we critically reflect, through the lens of liberation psychology, on our experiences of using participative community arts in work with young people and intergenerational groups in inner-city Manchester, UK. We used mixed methods to examine the impact of and engagement with community arts in two projects. One study was quasi experimental in design and used questionnaires developed by the researchers to compare Higher Education aspi…
Culture, identity and alternatives to the consumer culture
This article explores questions of identity and culture in relation to the present systemic crises that confront human life on the planet, problematizing the pursuit of economic growth and consumerist culture. It uses the concept of Ideology-Action-Structure complexes to understand the saturating nature of social, political and economic domination, and then explores interventions in these complexes, which all have characteristics of informal educ…
Creating Community Cohesion
National policies implemented at local level require marginalised community groups to work with public sector agencies and professionals. It can be a significant challenge to work across these boundaries. This article explores how creative and visual methods can be used to support people from so-called ‘hard-to-reach’ groups to articulate complex thoughts and ideas, and communicate their experience of living in their communities. Examples are dra…
Consultation and Participation with Children in Healthy Schools
In this paper we report on our use of a participatory research methodology to consult with children in the UK on how to improve pupil well‐being in secondary schools, framed within the wider social policy context of healthy schools . We worked with children on the selection of our research methods and sought to voice the views of children to a local education authority to improve the design of school environments. The consultation process ultimat…
Critical Connections between Participatory Evaluation, Organizational Learning and Intentional Change in Pluralistic Organizations
The current debate around the emergence of participatory approaches in evaluation practice suggests that participatory evaluation may be considered an organizational learning praxis, one which facilitates the development of a holistic process of intentional change. Through critical reflection on how participatory evaluation has been conceptualized, this article offers an overview of some of the contextual challenges encountered when using partici…
Researching Pupil Well-Being in UK Secondary Schools
This study explores the relationships between a school, its staff and its pupils and the impact of these relationships on school pupils' well-being. The authors adopted a community psychological perspective and applied critical, social constructionist epistemologies and participatory, multi-method research tools. The article discusses the importance of focusing on the complex, multilayered context of people's lives (both participants and research…
Interrogating power
In this paper, we use the multi‐dimensional model of power to interrogate arts and mental health community based projects. Using data retrospectively gathered during a series of participative evaluations, we re‐analyse the data focusing on the ways in which power is located and negotiated across levels of analysis and multiple ecological domains. Evidence from the evaluations is richly presented illustrating power at the micro, meso and macro lev…
Comparing transition expectations of young people with moderate learning disabilities with other vulnerable youth and with their non‐disabled counterparts
This article uses data obtained from a study that examined transition experiences of young people with moderate learning disabilities. A comparison is made between those experiences and the experiences of both other vulnerable young people and non‐disabled youth. It was found that non‐disabled youth experience extended transitions with events that signify adult status taking place well into young people’s 20s. On the other hand, vulnerable youth …
The internet, empowerment, and identity
This article considers the relationship between the Internet, empowerment, identity and participation; and focuses on refugee women in the United Kingdom (UK) participating in a Community Internet Project (CIP) to learn Internet skills. Semi‐structured interviews and a non‐participant observation were conducted with six refugee women and the course tutor participating in the final session of the CIP. Thematic analysis of the interviews supplement…
Decoding Valuing People
Government policy frameworks on the support of disabled people can often be difficult to 'read', as they contain contradictory elements that simultaneously support and confront social processes that create inequalities and oppression. Valuing People (VP), the UK government's policy framework for learning disability (intellectual disability), provides such a context for work that enhances learning‐disabled people's inclusion in community and socie…
Liberation social psychology
Liberation Social Psychology (la psicología social de la liberación, LSP) has developed amongst a body of psychologists in Latin America over the last decade. There has been no survey of the field in English, although some of the ideas are of relevance for those working with oppressed groups elsewhere in the world. This article explores the context in which LSP grew from the work of Ignacio Martín‐Baró and was developed by Maritza Montero, amongs…
People with Cognitive Disabilities
Journal Article People with Cognitive Disabilities Get access Andrew McCormick, Andrew McCormick Bellevue, WA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Constance Kagan Constance Kagan Great Falls, VA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 49, Issue 3, July 2004, Pages 520–522, https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/49.3.520-a Published: 01 July 2004
Dual-Earner Parents With Disabled Children
Family strategies for caregiving and income generation are examined in a qualitative study of employed parents of disabled children in the United Kingdom. Four family patterns for working and caring emerged: modified single earner, one-and-a-half earners, dual earners, and flexible dual earners. A number of social, economic, and ideological factors contributed to decision making for these families. Gender expectations and related ideology of cari…
Enabled or disabled? Working parents of disabled children and the provision of child‐care
This research explores the reported experiences of working parents of disabled children with respect to formal and informal sources of child-care, the need for which extends beyond the childhood years. Forty families with at least one disabled child, representing a variety of family structures and work situations, participated in semi-structured interviews. The resultant data revealed an analytical axis of disabling and enabling features of child…
Work and Family Roles
This study examines Indian career women's work and family roles, sources of stress, ways of coping, and well-being in the light of cultural expectations in India and the West. A number of different instruments were included to measure job satisfaction, mental health, job stressors, coping behavior, demographic characteristics, domestic responsibility and satisfaction. Data were collected, using two earner stressor questionnaires (a coping behavio…
Economic and Psychological Benefits from Employment
This qualitative research explores the perspectives and experiences of employed mothers of disabled children particularly with respect to the potential benefits of employment. Forty families with at least one disabled child, representing a variety of family structures and work situations, participated in semi-structured interviews. The findings of this study clearly illustrate that the economic, psychological and social benefits for mothers of di…
British South Asian women managers and professionals
Even though an increasing number of British South Asian women have moved into paid employment over the years as a reflection of social and cultural mobility and change, their work‐family experiences are not widely reported. This paper examines the experiences of British South Asian full‐time managerial or professional women combining work and family life. A qualitative study based in the north‐west of England was conducted utilising semi‐structur…
The Verbal Community and the Societal Construction of Consciousness
Transforming psychological practice
Men dominate academic psychology in Britain. In this paper two women authors discuss the impact of this on their own and their students' experience of psychology. They examine the influence of their emotional, personal, and domestic lives as well as their increasing awareness of the ways in which psychology oppresses women, on the psychology they practice as teachers, writers, and researchers. They also explore the ways in which their own expecta…
City of Sokrates
Country and Town 2. Population, Property, Taxation 3. Radical Democracy: Constitution Cohesion 4. The Imperial Ethos 5. Schooling, Literacy, Books and History 6. Religion 7. Art and Patronage: Poetry in General Tragedy Comedy Visual Art 8. Science, Nature, Culture and the Sophists 9. Philosophy, from Anaxagoras to Sokrates Appendix 1. Athenian Money Appendix 2. Chronological Table Further Reading Index
City of Sokrates
Country and Town 2. Population, Property, Taxation 3. Radical Democracy: Constitution Cohesion 4. The Imperial Ethos 5. Schooling, Literacy, Books and History 6. Religion 7. Art and Patronage: Poetry in General Tragedy Comedy Visual Art 8. Science, Nature, Culture and the Sophists 9. Philosophy, from Anaxagoras to Sokrates Appendix 1. Athenian Money Appendix 2. Chronological Table Further Reading Index
Liberation social psychology
Liberation Social Psychology (la psicología social de la liberación, LSP) has developed amongst a body of psychologists in Latin America over the last decade. There has been no survey of the field in English, although some of the ideas are of relevance for those working with oppressed groups elsewhere in the world. This article explores the context in which LSP grew from the work of Ignacio Martín‐Baró and was developed by Maritza Montero, amongs…
Dual-Earner Parents With Disabled Children
Family strategies for caregiving and income generation are examined in a qualitative study of employed parents of disabled children in the United Kingdom. Four family patterns for working and caring emerged: modified single earner, one-and-a-half earners, dual earners, and flexible dual earners. A number of social, economic, and ideological factors contributed to decision making for these families. Gender expectations and related ideology of cari…
Economic and Psychological Benefits from Employment
This qualitative research explores the perspectives and experiences of employed mothers of disabled children particularly with respect to the potential benefits of employment. Forty families with at least one disabled child, representing a variety of family structures and work situations, participated in semi-structured interviews. The findings of this study clearly illustrate that the economic, psychological and social benefits for mothers of di…
The internet, empowerment, and identity
This article considers the relationship between the Internet, empowerment, identity and participation; and focuses on refugee women in the United Kingdom (UK) participating in a Community Internet Project (CIP) to learn Internet skills. Semi‐structured interviews and a non‐participant observation were conducted with six refugee women and the course tutor participating in the final session of the CIP. Thematic analysis of the interviews supplement…
Decoding Valuing People
Government policy frameworks on the support of disabled people can often be difficult to 'read', as they contain contradictory elements that simultaneously support and confront social processes that create inequalities and oppression. Valuing People (VP), the UK government's policy framework for learning disability (intellectual disability), provides such a context for work that enhances learning‐disabled people's inclusion in community and socie…
Critical Connections between Participatory Evaluation, Organizational Learning and Intentional Change in Pluralistic Organizations
The current debate around the emergence of participatory approaches in evaluation practice suggests that participatory evaluation may be considered an organizational learning praxis, one which facilitates the development of a holistic process of intentional change. Through critical reflection on how participatory evaluation has been conceptualized, this article offers an overview of some of the contextual challenges encountered when using partici…
Research priorities for the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) that has caused the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic represents the greatest international biopsychosocial emergency the world has faced for a century, and psychological science has an integral role to offer in helping societies recover. The aim of this paper is to set out the shorter- and longer-term priorities for research in psychological science that will (a) frame t…
Interrogating power
In this paper, we use the multi‐dimensional model of power to interrogate arts and mental health community based projects. Using data retrospectively gathered during a series of participative evaluations, we re‐analyse the data focusing on the ways in which power is located and negotiated across levels of analysis and multiple ecological domains. Evidence from the evaluations is richly presented illustrating power at the micro, meso and macro lev…
Work and Family Roles
This study examines Indian career women's work and family roles, sources of stress, ways of coping, and well-being in the light of cultural expectations in India and the West. A number of different instruments were included to measure job satisfaction, mental health, job stressors, coping behavior, demographic characteristics, domestic responsibility and satisfaction. Data were collected, using two earner stressor questionnaires (a coping behavio…
Consultation and Participation with Children in Healthy Schools
In this paper we report on our use of a participatory research methodology to consult with children in the UK on how to improve pupil well‐being in secondary schools, framed within the wider social policy context of healthy schools . We worked with children on the selection of our research methods and sought to voice the views of children to a local education authority to improve the design of school environments. The consultation process ultimat…
Comparing transition expectations of young people with moderate learning disabilities with other vulnerable youth and with their non‐disabled counterparts
This article uses data obtained from a study that examined transition experiences of young people with moderate learning disabilities. A comparison is made between those experiences and the experiences of both other vulnerable young people and non‐disabled youth. It was found that non‐disabled youth experience extended transitions with events that signify adult status taking place well into young people’s 20s. On the other hand, vulnerable youth …
Feminist composite narratives of Chinese women
This contribution builds on the work Lewis has engaged in around women’s decision-making processes on work and care. Gender has been an important consideration across her work and this has been explored in familial and organisational settings. The personal is undoubtedly political and a feminist lens privileges this. Previous research (including Lewis) has marked a shift from work-life balance to work personal life integration. This implies agenc…
Culture, identity and alternatives to the consumer culture
This article explores questions of identity and culture in relation to the present systemic crises that confront human life on the planet, problematizing the pursuit of economic growth and consumerist culture. It uses the concept of Ideology-Action-Structure complexes to understand the saturating nature of social, political and economic domination, and then explores interventions in these complexes, which all have characteristics of informal educ…
Creating Community Cohesion
National policies implemented at local level require marginalised community groups to work with public sector agencies and professionals. It can be a significant challenge to work across these boundaries. This article explores how creative and visual methods can be used to support people from so-called ‘hard-to-reach’ groups to articulate complex thoughts and ideas, and communicate their experience of living in their communities. Examples are dra…
Researching Pupil Well-Being in UK Secondary Schools
This study explores the relationships between a school, its staff and its pupils and the impact of these relationships on school pupils' well-being. The authors adopted a community psychological perspective and applied critical, social constructionist epistemologies and participatory, multi-method research tools. The article discusses the importance of focusing on the complex, multilayered context of people's lives (both participants and research…
Participation in community arts
In this paper, we critically reflect, through the lens of liberation psychology, on our experiences of using participative community arts in work with young people and intergenerational groups in inner-city Manchester, UK. We used mixed methods to examine the impact of and engagement with community arts in two projects. One study was quasi experimental in design and used questionnaires developed by the researchers to compare Higher Education aspi…
The Verbal Community and the Societal Construction of Consciousness
Transforming psychological practice
Men dominate academic psychology in Britain. In this paper two women authors discuss the impact of this on their own and their students' experience of psychology. They examine the influence of their emotional, personal, and domestic lives as well as their increasing awareness of the ways in which psychology oppresses women, on the psychology they practice as teachers, writers, and researchers. They also explore the ways in which their own expecta…
City of Sokrates
Country and Town 2. Population, Property, Taxation 3. Radical Democracy: Constitution Cohesion 4. The Imperial Ethos 5. Schooling, Literacy, Books and History 6. Religion 7. Art and Patronage: Poetry in General Tragedy Comedy Visual Art 8. Science, Nature, Culture and the Sophists 9. Philosophy, from Anaxagoras to Sokrates Appendix 1. Athenian Money Appendix 2. Chronological Table Further Reading Index
Transforming psychological practice
Men dominate academic psychology in Britain. In this paper two women authors discuss the impact of this on their own and their students' experience of psychology. They examine the influence of their emotional, personal, and domestic lives as well as their increasing awareness of the ways in which psychology oppresses women, on the psychology they practice as teachers, writers, and researchers. They also explore the ways in which their own expecta…
The Verbal Community and the Societal Construction of Consciousness
British South Asian women managers and professionals
Even though an increasing number of British South Asian women have moved into paid employment over the years as a reflection of social and cultural mobility and change, their work‐family experiences are not widely reported. This paper examines the experiences of British South Asian full‐time managerial or professional women combining work and family life. A qualitative study based in the north‐west of England was conducted utilising semi‐structur…
Enabled or disabled? Working parents of disabled children and the provision of child‐care
This research explores the reported experiences of working parents of disabled children with respect to formal and informal sources of child-care, the need for which extends beyond the childhood years. Forty families with at least one disabled child, representing a variety of family structures and work situations, participated in semi-structured interviews. The resultant data revealed an analytical axis of disabling and enabling features of child…
Work and Family Roles
This study examines Indian career women's work and family roles, sources of stress, ways of coping, and well-being in the light of cultural expectations in India and the West. A number of different instruments were included to measure job satisfaction, mental health, job stressors, coping behavior, demographic characteristics, domestic responsibility and satisfaction. Data were collected, using two earner stressor questionnaires (a coping behavio…
Economic and Psychological Benefits from Employment
This qualitative research explores the perspectives and experiences of employed mothers of disabled children particularly with respect to the potential benefits of employment. Forty families with at least one disabled child, representing a variety of family structures and work situations, participated in semi-structured interviews. The findings of this study clearly illustrate that the economic, psychological and social benefits for mothers of di…
Dual-Earner Parents With Disabled Children
Family strategies for caregiving and income generation are examined in a qualitative study of employed parents of disabled children in the United Kingdom. Four family patterns for working and caring emerged: modified single earner, one-and-a-half earners, dual earners, and flexible dual earners. A number of social, economic, and ideological factors contributed to decision making for these families. Gender expectations and related ideology of cari…
Liberation social psychology
Liberation Social Psychology (la psicología social de la liberación, LSP) has developed amongst a body of psychologists in Latin America over the last decade. There has been no survey of the field in English, although some of the ideas are of relevance for those working with oppressed groups elsewhere in the world. This article explores the context in which LSP grew from the work of Ignacio Martín‐Baró and was developed by Maritza Montero, amongs…
People with Cognitive Disabilities
Journal Article People with Cognitive Disabilities Get access Andrew McCormick, Andrew McCormick Bellevue, WA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Constance Kagan Constance Kagan Great Falls, VA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 49, Issue 3, July 2004, Pages 520–522, https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/49.3.520-a Published: 01 July 2004
The internet, empowerment, and identity
This article considers the relationship between the Internet, empowerment, identity and participation; and focuses on refugee women in the United Kingdom (UK) participating in a Community Internet Project (CIP) to learn Internet skills. Semi‐structured interviews and a non‐participant observation were conducted with six refugee women and the course tutor participating in the final session of the CIP. Thematic analysis of the interviews supplement…
Decoding Valuing People
Government policy frameworks on the support of disabled people can often be difficult to 'read', as they contain contradictory elements that simultaneously support and confront social processes that create inequalities and oppression. Valuing People (VP), the UK government's policy framework for learning disability (intellectual disability), provides such a context for work that enhances learning‐disabled people's inclusion in community and socie…
Interrogating power
In this paper, we use the multi‐dimensional model of power to interrogate arts and mental health community based projects. Using data retrospectively gathered during a series of participative evaluations, we re‐analyse the data focusing on the ways in which power is located and negotiated across levels of analysis and multiple ecological domains. Evidence from the evaluations is richly presented illustrating power at the micro, meso and macro lev…
Comparing transition expectations of young people with moderate learning disabilities with other vulnerable youth and with their non‐disabled counterparts
This article uses data obtained from a study that examined transition experiences of young people with moderate learning disabilities. A comparison is made between those experiences and the experiences of both other vulnerable young people and non‐disabled youth. It was found that non‐disabled youth experience extended transitions with events that signify adult status taking place well into young people’s 20s. On the other hand, vulnerable youth …
Researching Pupil Well-Being in UK Secondary Schools
This study explores the relationships between a school, its staff and its pupils and the impact of these relationships on school pupils' well-being. The authors adopted a community psychological perspective and applied critical, social constructionist epistemologies and participatory, multi-method research tools. The article discusses the importance of focusing on the complex, multilayered context of people's lives (both participants and research…
Critical Connections between Participatory Evaluation, Organizational Learning and Intentional Change in Pluralistic Organizations
The current debate around the emergence of participatory approaches in evaluation practice suggests that participatory evaluation may be considered an organizational learning praxis, one which facilitates the development of a holistic process of intentional change. Through critical reflection on how participatory evaluation has been conceptualized, this article offers an overview of some of the contextual challenges encountered when using partici…
Consultation and Participation with Children in Healthy Schools
In this paper we report on our use of a participatory research methodology to consult with children in the UK on how to improve pupil well‐being in secondary schools, framed within the wider social policy context of healthy schools . We worked with children on the selection of our research methods and sought to voice the views of children to a local education authority to improve the design of school environments. The consultation process ultimat…
Creating Community Cohesion
National policies implemented at local level require marginalised community groups to work with public sector agencies and professionals. It can be a significant challenge to work across these boundaries. This article explores how creative and visual methods can be used to support people from so-called ‘hard-to-reach’ groups to articulate complex thoughts and ideas, and communicate their experience of living in their communities. Examples are dra…
Culture, identity and alternatives to the consumer culture
This article explores questions of identity and culture in relation to the present systemic crises that confront human life on the planet, problematizing the pursuit of economic growth and consumerist culture. It uses the concept of Ideology-Action-Structure complexes to understand the saturating nature of social, political and economic domination, and then explores interventions in these complexes, which all have characteristics of informal educ…
Participation in community arts
In this paper, we critically reflect, through the lens of liberation psychology, on our experiences of using participative community arts in work with young people and intergenerational groups in inner-city Manchester, UK. We used mixed methods to examine the impact of and engagement with community arts in two projects. One study was quasi experimental in design and used questionnaires developed by the researchers to compare Higher Education aspi…
‘I’m not a therapist you know… I’m an artist’
The role of the artist is crucial to the success of arts for health initiatives yet remains under-explored in the research literature. This article examines the practice of arts facilitation through the lens of self-determination theory (SDT). Fourteen interviews with artists leading projects for older adults across three settings were subject to a secondary thematic analysis. A hybrid approach was adopted with themes developed inductively and de…
Feminist composite narratives of Chinese women
This contribution builds on the work Lewis has engaged in around women’s decision-making processes on work and care. Gender has been an important consideration across her work and this has been explored in familial and organisational settings. The personal is undoubtedly political and a feminist lens privileges this. Previous research (including Lewis) has marked a shift from work-life balance to work personal life integration. This implies agenc…
Research priorities for the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) that has caused the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic represents the greatest international biopsychosocial emergency the world has faced for a century, and psychological science has an integral role to offer in helping societies recover. The aim of this paper is to set out the shorter- and longer-term priorities for research in psychological science that will (a) frame t…
Hope
In this end note we will revisit the primacy of the ecological crisis as a lens through which to view changing social structures, alliances and possibilities for change. We will then go on to consider ways in which critical community psychological thought and praxis can work with others to recognise the realities of people’s lives and engender hope for the future. We recognise the playfulness of the end note. Here we utilise it as a commentary on…
Volunteering in the community
Upstanding civic action is central to individual and community well‐being, particularly when communities comprise rich and diverse membership. However, not all groups in society have the same opportunities and resources to volunteer. This is particularly true for South Asian people, who are often reported to be less likely to volunteer. Research into the experience and meanings that this ethnic group attributes to volunteering has been exceptiona…
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