Hello,

Thank you for sharing the photonovelas and your website.

Question: when using a participatory approach and photos of students or
patients or clients, whatr sort of releases are required to publish the
photos in a photonovela?

Caren Fairweather, Executive Director
Maternal-Infant Services Network
of Orange, Sullivan and Ulster Counties, Inc.
(845) 928-7448
www.misn-ny.org


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Greetings,
Inspired by Paulo Freire's approach to critical pedagogy, my MA research
involved having immigrant ESL speaking women create a participatory
photonovel about eating well in Canada.  The process of creating a
photonovel was found to be a consciousness raising experience for the
women. Furthermore, the tangible result was a comprehensible health
literacy tool for this population of Canadians (see www.photonovel.ca).
In response to the growing interest in using photonovels as a health
literacy tool, I have created a new website at www.photonovela.com The
goal of this site is to have a place where photonovels can be shared and
disseminated more widely (the site still needs a little work and should
be finished in a couple of weeks). Along with the great resources
already mentioned on photonovels see also:

Nimmon, L. (2007).  Within the eyes of the people: Using a photonovel as
a consciousness-raising health literacy tool with ESL-speaking immigrant
women. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 98(4), 337-340.

James, S., Reddy, P., Ruiter, R., Taylor, M., Jinabhai, C., Van Empelen,
P., et al. (2005). The effects of a systematically developed
photonovella on knowledge, attitudes, communication and behavioural
intentions with respect to sexually transmitted infections among
secondary school learners in South Africa. Health Promotion
International, 20(2), 157-165.

Wang, C., & Burris, A. (1994). Empowerment through photonovella:
Portraits of participation. Health Education Quarterly, 21(2), 171-186.

Laura Nimmon
Doctoral Fellow
Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada
Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research
Faculty of Education-University of British Columbia


Hello,
Photonovels, as many of you know, are a popular form of literature in
various parts of the world. Photonovels, like comic books, carry a story

> through visuals and brief dialogue. As you explore and think about 

> using photonovels, I urge you to consider a participatory approach 

> rather than rely on experts to develop the materials.

>

> In the late 1970s, John Comings and Bonnie Cain [then doctoral 

> students at the University of Massachusetts] were approached by the 

> New England Farmworkers Union to develop literacy classes for union 

> members. Unable to find appropriate adult materials for beginning 

> readers in English, they decided to work directly with the farmworkers



> and help them develop their own stories that could then be used to in 

> adult education literacy classes. Comings and Cain were inspired by 

> Paulo Freire in this participatory materials development approach. 

> They used a photonovel format which, nicely enough, supports even 

> broader participation because members of the intended audience could 

> also serve as actors as well as writers, planners, and photographers. 

> Furthermore, the photonovel could illustrate local faces and places 

> and - in further extension, be printed by local groups.  Comings based



> his doctoral dissertation on an analysis and evaluation of this work.

>

> Soon thereafter, Debra Roter and I worked with Comings on the 

> evaluation of a participatory photonovel focused on environmental 

> issues and then began to apply the same approach for a wide variety of



> health related issues in various settings --  working with public 

> schools, building trade unions, and community organizations. You can 

> read about these approaches, the theoretical model, and our evaluation



> findings in the following articles and book chapter:

>

> Roter DL, Rudd RE, Keoge J, Robinson B. Worker Produced Health 

> Education Material for the Construction Trades.  International 

> Quarterly of Community Health Education 7; 7(2): 109-121. 1986-7. 

> Roter DL, Rudd RE,  Frantz S, Comings JP. Participatory Materials 

> Development in Health Education. Public Health Reports, 96(2):169-172.



> 1987. Rudd RE, Comings JP.  Learner Developed Materials: An Empowering



> Product, Health Education Quarterly 21(3):33-47. 1994.

> Rudd RE, Comfort L, Mongillo J, Zani L.    Student Produced Health

> Education Materials, chapter in Matiella (ed), Comprehensive Health

> Education in the Multiethnic Classroom, Santa Cruz, CA: ETR

Associates,

> 1994.

>

> Dr. Roterâ??s graduate students at Hopkins develop new photonovels 

> each year and several have gone on to develop and evaluate such work 

> in various parts of Africa and Asia. You can find the Rudd and Comings



> Health Education Quarterly article as well as additional background 

> materials and

> examples:  www.hsph.harvard.edu/healthliteracy/innovative materials

>

> Rima Rudd

>

>

>

> Rima E. Rudd, ScD, MSPH

> Department of Society, Human Development & Health

> Harvard School of Public Health

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> Boston MA 02115

> Phone: 617 432 1135

> fax:     617 432 3123

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