Shanon K Phelan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 206551 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Shanon K Phelan |
| PRENOMES | Shanon K |
| SOBRENOME | Phelan |
| ASSINATURA | PHELAN S K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Dalhousie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2844-6250 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 105 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2009 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
They smirk ‘but you're not dying’ and other (mis)understandings about communication and concussion navigated by youth
Communication is essential to everyday life; however, youth experiences of post-concussion communication changes are often overlooked and misunderstood. Researchers have yet to investigate how socio-cultural values, assumptions and beliefs about communication and concussion shape youths’ concussion recoveries. Concussions are commonly misunderstood as ‘mild’ injuries with limited impact on daily life. However, approximately 30% of youth experienc…
Making It Work
Inclusive education is at the forefront of transnational policy agendas. Yet, normative, deficit-oriented disability discourses and institutional gaps continue to shape how inclusion is enacted in schools, often displacing extensive and unacknowledged labour onto families, especially mothers. Drawing on feminist theories of invisible work, this article critically examines the everyday labour performed by mothers of disabled children as they navig…
Positioning Positionality and Reflecting on Reflexivity
Collectively, we explore the relationship between reflexivity and positionality statements as reflexive practice, considering who benefits, who has authority, and our expectations of each other as qualitative researchers. Moving between examples of doing reflexivity in practice and what is often requested of authors during the peer review and editorial processes, we challenge the idea that positionality statements in the form of identity disclosu…
You’re doing it wrong
I'll Show You
Disabled children are often excluded from research about their own lives due to researchers' reliance on inaccessible methods and ableist assumptions about their capabilities. Inclusive research approaches that prioritize accessibility, meaningful engagement, dignity, and ethics create space for research with and by disabled children. Accessible methods for data generation play a central role in inclusive research. For example, action cameras hav…
This Is a Look Into My Life
As researchers in communication sciences and related disciplines continue to embrace qualitative research methodologies, there will be a corresponding need for innovative methods and strategies for data collection and generation, reflexivity and knowledge translation to make qualitative research methods more inclusive. Historically, those who communicate differently from the status quo have been excluded from or spoken for in qualitative research…
The (radical) role of belonging in shifting and expanding understandings of social inclusion for people labelled with intellectual and developmental disabilities
There is a gap between the desired outcomes of social inclusion policy and the everyday experiences of people labelled with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Despite belonging rhetorically named in social inclusion policy and practice, belonging is often absent in the lives of people labelled with intellectual and developmental disabilities and remains undertheorised in its relationship to social inclusion. In this paper, we explore th…
Intimate partner violence against women with intellectual disability
Women with intellectual disability experience intimate partner violence at higher rates and tend to remain in abusive relationships longer than non-disabled women. The purpose of this inquiry was to generate a preliminary set of principles and delineate domains of support as a general guide for social service workers supporting women with intellectual disability through the difficult, often stop-start process of ending an abusive relationship and…
The devolution of eugenic practices
Critically reflective practice and its sources
The exclusionary effects of inclusion today
Current inclusive education practices remain entrenched in deficit-oriented discourses. An interrogation of these discourses is necessary to enact inclusion driven by diversity and collective belonging. This collective case study explored 10 cases of parent and child experiences in inclusive school settings and addressed the following questions: What disability discourses are (re)produced in inclusive school settings? What are the effects of thes…
Silences around occupations framed as unhealthy, illegal, and deviant
Occupational science has made tremendous strides in establishing a theoretical and empirical knowledge base grounded in the study of occupation. Yet given its origins in occupational therapy, a health profession aimed at enhancing health and well-being through engagement in meaningful and purposeful occupation, there has been sustained focus on the health-enhancing qualities of occupation. This has effectively silenced a significant realm of huma…
Picture This . . . Safety, Dignity, and Voice—Ethical Research With Children
While engaged in a research project involving the use of visual methods with children, the authors discovered that there are many ethical considerations beyond what could have been predicted at the outset. Some of these considerations are important with respect to research with children in general, while others arise more particularly when using visual methods. Framed around the two broad categories of procedural ethics and ethics in practice, fi…
An institutional ethnography inquiry of health care work in special education
A primary outcome of this study will be the creation of verbal and visual maps that demonstrate the social organisation of work processes occurring in the health care-special education interface. These maps will make invisible work visible, highlight disjunctures between policy and practice and identify opportunities for change. They will be useful for critical knowledge translation purposes, providing parents and professionals with an awareness …
Occupation and Identity
Occupational identity is an emerging construct in occupational science. To date, little research has been conducted that explores occupational identity in childhood, particularly with children with disabilities. This study undertakes research on this topic using a socio-cultural perspective. The research considers two main questions: “How is occupation implicated in the shaping of identity for children with disabilities?” and “How might a socio-c…
Introducing a Critical Analysis of the Figured World of Occupation
This critical analysis of occupational science examines the figured world of occupation. Figured worlds are 'typical' representations of a particular construct based on taken-for-granted theories and stories developed through experience and "guided, shaped, and normed" though social interactions (Gee, 2011, p. 76). Drawing on theoretical articles published primarily in the Journal of Occupational Science, a discussion regarding the values and ass…
Occupational identity
Occupational identity has been conceptualized with the individual at the core of the construct and assuming that autonomy and free choice are universally applicable constructs. While occupational therapists acknowledge social and cultural dimensions of identity formation and occupational scientists have advocated greater inclusion of socio‐cultural perspectives in theory generation, the relevance of these constructs has yet to be examined. This a…
Occupational identity
Occupational identity has been conceptualized with the individual at the core of the construct and assuming that autonomy and free choice are universally applicable constructs. While occupational therapists acknowledge social and cultural dimensions of identity formation and occupational scientists have advocated greater inclusion of socio‐cultural perspectives in theory generation, the relevance of these constructs has yet to be examined. This a…
Introducing a Critical Analysis of the Figured World of Occupation
This critical analysis of occupational science examines the figured world of occupation. Figured worlds are 'typical' representations of a particular construct based on taken-for-granted theories and stories developed through experience and "guided, shaped, and normed" though social interactions (Gee, 2011, p. 76). Drawing on theoretical articles published primarily in the Journal of Occupational Science, a discussion regarding the values and ass…
The devolution of eugenic practices
Silences around occupations framed as unhealthy, illegal, and deviant
Occupational science has made tremendous strides in establishing a theoretical and empirical knowledge base grounded in the study of occupation. Yet given its origins in occupational therapy, a health profession aimed at enhancing health and well-being through engagement in meaningful and purposeful occupation, there has been sustained focus on the health-enhancing qualities of occupation. This has effectively silenced a significant realm of huma…
This Is a Look Into My Life
As researchers in communication sciences and related disciplines continue to embrace qualitative research methodologies, there will be a corresponding need for innovative methods and strategies for data collection and generation, reflexivity and knowledge translation to make qualitative research methods more inclusive. Historically, those who communicate differently from the status quo have been excluded from or spoken for in qualitative research…
The exclusionary effects of inclusion today
Current inclusive education practices remain entrenched in deficit-oriented discourses. An interrogation of these discourses is necessary to enact inclusion driven by diversity and collective belonging. This collective case study explored 10 cases of parent and child experiences in inclusive school settings and addressed the following questions: What disability discourses are (re)produced in inclusive school settings? What are the effects of thes…
Occupation and Identity
Occupational identity is an emerging construct in occupational science. To date, little research has been conducted that explores occupational identity in childhood, particularly with children with disabilities. This study undertakes research on this topic using a socio-cultural perspective. The research considers two main questions: “How is occupation implicated in the shaping of identity for children with disabilities?” and “How might a socio-c…
Intimate partner violence against women with intellectual disability
Women with intellectual disability experience intimate partner violence at higher rates and tend to remain in abusive relationships longer than non-disabled women. The purpose of this inquiry was to generate a preliminary set of principles and delineate domains of support as a general guide for social service workers supporting women with intellectual disability through the difficult, often stop-start process of ending an abusive relationship and…
An institutional ethnography inquiry of health care work in special education
A primary outcome of this study will be the creation of verbal and visual maps that demonstrate the social organisation of work processes occurring in the health care-special education interface. These maps will make invisible work visible, highlight disjunctures between policy and practice and identify opportunities for change. They will be useful for critical knowledge translation purposes, providing parents and professionals with an awareness …
Occupational identity
Occupational identity has been conceptualized with the individual at the core of the construct and assuming that autonomy and free choice are universally applicable constructs. While occupational therapists acknowledge social and cultural dimensions of identity formation and occupational scientists have advocated greater inclusion of socio‐cultural perspectives in theory generation, the relevance of these constructs has yet to be examined. This a…
Picture This . . . Safety, Dignity, and Voice—Ethical Research With Children
While engaged in a research project involving the use of visual methods with children, the authors discovered that there are many ethical considerations beyond what could have been predicted at the outset. Some of these considerations are important with respect to research with children in general, while others arise more particularly when using visual methods. Framed around the two broad categories of procedural ethics and ethics in practice, fi…
An institutional ethnography inquiry of health care work in special education
A primary outcome of this study will be the creation of verbal and visual maps that demonstrate the social organisation of work processes occurring in the health care-special education interface. These maps will make invisible work visible, highlight disjunctures between policy and practice and identify opportunities for change. They will be useful for critical knowledge translation purposes, providing parents and professionals with an awareness …
Occupation and Identity
Occupational identity is an emerging construct in occupational science. To date, little research has been conducted that explores occupational identity in childhood, particularly with children with disabilities. This study undertakes research on this topic using a socio-cultural perspective. The research considers two main questions: “How is occupation implicated in the shaping of identity for children with disabilities?” and “How might a socio-c…
Introducing a Critical Analysis of the Figured World of Occupation
This critical analysis of occupational science examines the figured world of occupation. Figured worlds are 'typical' representations of a particular construct based on taken-for-granted theories and stories developed through experience and "guided, shaped, and normed" though social interactions (Gee, 2011, p. 76). Drawing on theoretical articles published primarily in the Journal of Occupational Science, a discussion regarding the values and ass…
Silences around occupations framed as unhealthy, illegal, and deviant
Occupational science has made tremendous strides in establishing a theoretical and empirical knowledge base grounded in the study of occupation. Yet given its origins in occupational therapy, a health profession aimed at enhancing health and well-being through engagement in meaningful and purposeful occupation, there has been sustained focus on the health-enhancing qualities of occupation. This has effectively silenced a significant realm of huma…
Critically reflective practice and its sources
The exclusionary effects of inclusion today
Current inclusive education practices remain entrenched in deficit-oriented discourses. An interrogation of these discourses is necessary to enact inclusion driven by diversity and collective belonging. This collective case study explored 10 cases of parent and child experiences in inclusive school settings and addressed the following questions: What disability discourses are (re)produced in inclusive school settings? What are the effects of thes…
Intimate partner violence against women with intellectual disability
Women with intellectual disability experience intimate partner violence at higher rates and tend to remain in abusive relationships longer than non-disabled women. The purpose of this inquiry was to generate a preliminary set of principles and delineate domains of support as a general guide for social service workers supporting women with intellectual disability through the difficult, often stop-start process of ending an abusive relationship and…
The devolution of eugenic practices
The (radical) role of belonging in shifting and expanding understandings of social inclusion for people labelled with intellectual and developmental disabilities
There is a gap between the desired outcomes of social inclusion policy and the everyday experiences of people labelled with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Despite belonging rhetorically named in social inclusion policy and practice, belonging is often absent in the lives of people labelled with intellectual and developmental disabilities and remains undertheorised in its relationship to social inclusion. In this paper, we explore th…
You’re doing it wrong
I'll Show You
Disabled children are often excluded from research about their own lives due to researchers' reliance on inaccessible methods and ableist assumptions about their capabilities. Inclusive research approaches that prioritize accessibility, meaningful engagement, dignity, and ethics create space for research with and by disabled children. Accessible methods for data generation play a central role in inclusive research. For example, action cameras hav…
This Is a Look Into My Life
As researchers in communication sciences and related disciplines continue to embrace qualitative research methodologies, there will be a corresponding need for innovative methods and strategies for data collection and generation, reflexivity and knowledge translation to make qualitative research methods more inclusive. Historically, those who communicate differently from the status quo have been excluded from or spoken for in qualitative research…
Positioning Positionality and Reflecting on Reflexivity
Collectively, we explore the relationship between reflexivity and positionality statements as reflexive practice, considering who benefits, who has authority, and our expectations of each other as qualitative researchers. Moving between examples of doing reflexivity in practice and what is often requested of authors during the peer review and editorial processes, we challenge the idea that positionality statements in the form of identity disclosu…
They smirk ‘but you're not dying’ and other (mis)understandings about communication and concussion navigated by youth
Communication is essential to everyday life; however, youth experiences of post-concussion communication changes are often overlooked and misunderstood. Researchers have yet to investigate how socio-cultural values, assumptions and beliefs about communication and concussion shape youths’ concussion recoveries. Concussions are commonly misunderstood as ‘mild’ injuries with limited impact on daily life. However, approximately 30% of youth experienc…
Making It Work
Inclusive education is at the forefront of transnational policy agendas. Yet, normative, deficit-oriented disability discourses and institutional gaps continue to shape how inclusion is enacted in schools, often displacing extensive and unacknowledged labour onto families, especially mothers. Drawing on feminist theories of invisible work, this article critically examines the everyday labour performed by mothers of disabled children as they navig…
Sociology (15 obras) · Psychology (13 obras) · Political science (8 obras) · Social science (8 obras) · Disability Rights and Representation (6 obras) · Qualitative research (6 obras) · Reflexivity (6 obras) · Occupational Therapy Practice and Research (5 obras) · Epistemology (4 obras) · Gender Studies (4 obras)