Carol Pavlish
Biographic Data
| ID | 3575936 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carol Pavlish |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carol |
| FAMILY NAME | Pavlish |
| SIGNATURE | PAVLISH C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Finding Meaning in the Work of Caring
This chapter is a reflective examination of the experience of meaningfulness in nursing, which reveals the meaning of care work, as well as what makes caring work meaningful. Through a series of provocative narratives, the authors expose deeply personal explorations of meaningful moments in caring work, challenging basic assumptions about the link between meaningfulness in work and happiness, and the importance of “opportunity structures” for wor…
Women’s Health and Human Rights
Journal Article Women's Health and Human Rights: Converging Avenues for Action in East Africa Get access Carol Pavlish, Carol Pavlish Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Elena Ateva, Elena Ateva Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Anita Ho Anita Ho * Carol Pavlish ([email protected]) is a faculty member in ethics and social justice in the School of Nursing at the Uni…
Globalizing the Classroom
This essay examines an innovative approach to teaching across international and cultural boundaries and evaluates the experience in a course on Globalization, Social Justice, and Human Rights, co-taught collaboratively by faculty from different campuses and countries since 2011. This course was created to address unmet needs in the traditional higher educational systems. These include, but are not limited to, lack of cross-cultural and interdisci…
Indivisibility of Accountability and Empowerment in Tackling Gender-Based Violence
Informed by the capabilities approach and our own ethnographic research study conducted in collaboration with an international non-governmental organization that manages a Rwandan refugee camp, this article argues that accountability and empowerment play a dual and conditional relationship in human rights protection. On the one hand, accountability cannot be ensured when people lack the power to make their own choices and demand their rights; on …
Somali immigrant women and the American health care system
Refugee Women's Health
A collaborative capacity building experience in a Rwandan refugee camp with refugee women from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is described in this article. In service to the American Refugee Committee, I taught 13 refugee women how to plan and facilitate focus group sessions with the larger community of refugee women. The facilitators then conducted 18 focus group sessions gathering data from 100 refugee women. Thematic results included t…
Somali immigrant women and the American health care system
Indivisibility of Accountability and Empowerment in Tackling Gender-Based Violence
Informed by the capabilities approach and our own ethnographic research study conducted in collaboration with an international non-governmental organization that manages a Rwandan refugee camp, this article argues that accountability and empowerment play a dual and conditional relationship in human rights protection. On the one hand, accountability cannot be ensured when people lack the power to make their own choices and demand their rights; on …
Globalizing the Classroom
This essay examines an innovative approach to teaching across international and cultural boundaries and evaluates the experience in a course on Globalization, Social Justice, and Human Rights, co-taught collaboratively by faculty from different campuses and countries since 2011. This course was created to address unmet needs in the traditional higher educational systems. These include, but are not limited to, lack of cross-cultural and interdisci…
Refugee Women's Health
A collaborative capacity building experience in a Rwandan refugee camp with refugee women from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is described in this article. In service to the American Refugee Committee, I taught 13 refugee women how to plan and facilitate focus group sessions with the larger community of refugee women. The facilitators then conducted 18 focus group sessions gathering data from 100 refugee women. Thematic results included t…
Somali immigrant women and the American health care system
Indivisibility of Accountability and Empowerment in Tackling Gender-Based Violence
Informed by the capabilities approach and our own ethnographic research study conducted in collaboration with an international non-governmental organization that manages a Rwandan refugee camp, this article argues that accountability and empowerment play a dual and conditional relationship in human rights protection. On the one hand, accountability cannot be ensured when people lack the power to make their own choices and demand their rights; on …
Globalizing the Classroom
This essay examines an innovative approach to teaching across international and cultural boundaries and evaluates the experience in a course on Globalization, Social Justice, and Human Rights, co-taught collaboratively by faculty from different campuses and countries since 2011. This course was created to address unmet needs in the traditional higher educational systems. These include, but are not limited to, lack of cross-cultural and interdisci…
Women’s Health and Human Rights
Journal Article Women's Health and Human Rights: Converging Avenues for Action in East Africa Get access Carol Pavlish, Carol Pavlish Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Elena Ateva, Elena Ateva Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Anita Ho Anita Ho * Carol Pavlish ([email protected]) is a faculty member in ethics and social justice in the School of Nursing at the Uni…
Finding Meaning in the Work of Caring
This chapter is a reflective examination of the experience of meaningfulness in nursing, which reveals the meaning of care work, as well as what makes caring work meaningful. Through a series of provocative narratives, the authors expose deeply personal explorations of meaningful moments in caring work, challenging basic assumptions about the link between meaningfulness in work and happiness, and the importance of “opportunity structures” for wor…
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Refugee (4 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Human rights (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (2 works) · Nursing (2 works)