Karen Mcardle
Biographic Data
| ID | 759798 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Mcardle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcardle |
| SIGNATURE | MCARDLE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Aberdeen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
‘It gives meaning and purpose to what you do’: Mentors’ interpretations of practitioner action research in education
This paper explores the experience of three mentors working with a group of 12 practitioner action researchers; practitioners who were recipients of an Action Research Grant (ARG) in a programme initiated and managed by the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS). The EIS is a trade union, which represents over 80% of Scotland’s teaching professionals. The paper draws on these experiences, the views of participants and the research literature, to…
‘No One Chooses to Be Mentally Ill; Not Then, Not Now’: Archives Used Creatively Benefit Mental Health
This article considers the use of archives in a creative manner, to improve mental health and well-being. The project used narrative inquiry methods in an action research methodology to explore Dr Hills’ Casebook, which used the archives of Norfolk Lunatic Asylum, while Dr William Hills was medical superintendent (1861–87) there. These records, among them Dr Hills’s own journals, give a remarkable insight into nineteenth-century care of the menta…
The Impact of Community Work: How to Gather Evidence, Mark Doel
My own first foray into community work, as a social worker, was to call a public meeting in the ward where our neighbourhood social work team had newly set up, devolved from central office. The meeting was well-attended, and the first question from the floor was, ‘what are you going to do about all the dog dirt on the pavements?’ It was far from what we had anticipated as an opening topic, but it opened my eyes to the fact that the ‘community’ is…
The Impact of Community Work: How to Gather Evidence
Failure as Learning: Photovoice as Methodology in Research with Marginalised Young People
An unpublished pilot study at a charitable youth organisation in the North East of Scotland found that young people (aged 16 to 25) accommodated by the organisation consumed a diet high in sugar and low in levels of foods such as meat, fish, fruit, and vegetables (Perry, 2013). The Foodways and Futures project (2013-2016), combining ethnographic and action research methodology, set out to explore why the diet of young people was sub-optimal, desp…
Developing a discourse of the postmodern community development professional
This article seeks to promote the generation of a discourse of the postmodern community work professional. A shared discourse will lead, we propose to shared capital. We argue that there is a tension between the modern and postmodern for those of us engaged in the profession of community learning and development (CL&D). We need to value reflexivity which allows the community worker to make sense of multiple discourses and to make the transition f…
What makes a successful rural regeneration partnership? The views of successful partners and the importance of ethos for the community development professional
This case study of a rural regeneration project, known as the Mearns Area Project in the North of Scotland, explores how partners of the project define success. Drawing on interviews with the partners, I discuss how they define success and explore their perception of the underpinning causes of a successful project. I conclude that whilst outcomes as expected by funders and government authorities are important, ethos is an important contributing f…
Doing it right?’– accessing the narratives of identity of newly qualified social workers through the lens of resilience: ‘I am, I have, I can’
Using narrative enquiry, this paper accesses the construct of identity through exploring resilience in newly qualified social workers based in statutory children's services. In seeking to avoid deficit‐based models of this role, this paper aims to present inductively the ‘voice’ of three social workers in a semi‐rural authority, storying the positive ways in which resilience has developed during their first year. Using the Grotberg resilience fra…
Voice, Discourse and Transformation: Enabling learning for the achieving of social change
This paper proposes that transformative social change by community educators is not achievable unless they can challenge the social, economic and political discourses that have an impact on the practice of community education. As educators of community workers, the authors regard the development of voice to be a prerequisite for the challenging of discourse. Voice provides the foundations for understanding what it means to be who one is and how c…
A Post-Neoliberal Era in Latin America
The failure of a number of programmes and ongoing conflicts between neoliberal and post-neoliberal forces have resulted in growing social instability in Latin America. This book examines cultural responses to this instability. It looks at a wide range of cultural forms, such as literature, underground cinema, street fairs and self-help books to explore how Latin Americans construct subjectivities, build communities and make meaning in their every…
Doing it right?’– accessing the narratives of identity of newly qualified social workers through the lens of resilience: ‘I am, I have, I can’
Using narrative enquiry, this paper accesses the construct of identity through exploring resilience in newly qualified social workers based in statutory children's services. In seeking to avoid deficit‐based models of this role, this paper aims to present inductively the ‘voice’ of three social workers in a semi‐rural authority, storying the positive ways in which resilience has developed during their first year. Using the Grotberg resilience fra…
What makes a successful rural regeneration partnership? The views of successful partners and the importance of ethos for the community development professional
This case study of a rural regeneration project, known as the Mearns Area Project in the North of Scotland, explores how partners of the project define success. Drawing on interviews with the partners, I discuss how they define success and explore their perception of the underpinning causes of a successful project. I conclude that whilst outcomes as expected by funders and government authorities are important, ethos is an important contributing f…
Developing a discourse of the postmodern community development professional
This article seeks to promote the generation of a discourse of the postmodern community work professional. A shared discourse will lead, we propose to shared capital. We argue that there is a tension between the modern and postmodern for those of us engaged in the profession of community learning and development (CL&D). We need to value reflexivity which allows the community worker to make sense of multiple discourses and to make the transition f…
Voice, Discourse and Transformation: Enabling learning for the achieving of social change
This paper proposes that transformative social change by community educators is not achievable unless they can challenge the social, economic and political discourses that have an impact on the practice of community education. As educators of community workers, the authors regard the development of voice to be a prerequisite for the challenging of discourse. Voice provides the foundations for understanding what it means to be who one is and how c…
Voice, Discourse and Transformation: Enabling learning for the achieving of social change
This paper proposes that transformative social change by community educators is not achievable unless they can challenge the social, economic and political discourses that have an impact on the practice of community education. As educators of community workers, the authors regard the development of voice to be a prerequisite for the challenging of discourse. Voice provides the foundations for understanding what it means to be who one is and how c…
Doing it right?’– accessing the narratives of identity of newly qualified social workers through the lens of resilience: ‘I am, I have, I can’
Using narrative enquiry, this paper accesses the construct of identity through exploring resilience in newly qualified social workers based in statutory children's services. In seeking to avoid deficit‐based models of this role, this paper aims to present inductively the ‘voice’ of three social workers in a semi‐rural authority, storying the positive ways in which resilience has developed during their first year. Using the Grotberg resilience fra…
What makes a successful rural regeneration partnership? The views of successful partners and the importance of ethos for the community development professional
This case study of a rural regeneration project, known as the Mearns Area Project in the North of Scotland, explores how partners of the project define success. Drawing on interviews with the partners, I discuss how they define success and explore their perception of the underpinning causes of a successful project. I conclude that whilst outcomes as expected by funders and government authorities are important, ethos is an important contributing f…
Developing a discourse of the postmodern community development professional
This article seeks to promote the generation of a discourse of the postmodern community work professional. A shared discourse will lead, we propose to shared capital. We argue that there is a tension between the modern and postmodern for those of us engaged in the profession of community learning and development (CL&D). We need to value reflexivity which allows the community worker to make sense of multiple discourses and to make the transition f…
The Impact of Community Work: How to Gather Evidence
Failure as Learning: Photovoice as Methodology in Research with Marginalised Young People
An unpublished pilot study at a charitable youth organisation in the North East of Scotland found that young people (aged 16 to 25) accommodated by the organisation consumed a diet high in sugar and low in levels of foods such as meat, fish, fruit, and vegetables (Perry, 2013). The Foodways and Futures project (2013-2016), combining ethnographic and action research methodology, set out to explore why the diet of young people was sub-optimal, desp…
‘No One Chooses to Be Mentally Ill; Not Then, Not Now’: Archives Used Creatively Benefit Mental Health
This article considers the use of archives in a creative manner, to improve mental health and well-being. The project used narrative inquiry methods in an action research methodology to explore Dr Hills’ Casebook, which used the archives of Norfolk Lunatic Asylum, while Dr William Hills was medical superintendent (1861–87) there. These records, among them Dr Hills’s own journals, give a remarkable insight into nineteenth-century care of the menta…
The Impact of Community Work: How to Gather Evidence, Mark Doel
My own first foray into community work, as a social worker, was to call a public meeting in the ward where our neighbourhood social work team had newly set up, devolved from central office. The meeting was well-attended, and the first question from the floor was, ‘what are you going to do about all the dog dirt on the pavements?’ It was far from what we had anticipated as an opening topic, but it opened my eyes to the fact that the ‘community’ is…
‘It gives meaning and purpose to what you do’: Mentors’ interpretations of practitioner action research in education
This paper explores the experience of three mentors working with a group of 12 practitioner action researchers; practitioners who were recipients of an Action Research Grant (ARG) in a programme initiated and managed by the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS). The EIS is a trade union, which represents over 80% of Scotland’s teaching professionals. The paper draws on these experiences, the views of participants and the research literature, to…
A Post-Neoliberal Era in Latin America
The failure of a number of programmes and ongoing conflicts between neoliberal and post-neoliberal forces have resulted in growing social instability in Latin America. This book examines cultural responses to this instability. It looks at a wide range of cultural forms, such as literature, underground cinema, street fairs and self-help books to explore how Latin Americans construct subjectivities, build communities and make meaning in their every…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Reflexivity (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works)