By taking this approach, not only will diabetes research be more ethical in its construction, but it will also help break down community barriers that create resistance and fear towards the health care systems, provide care to the economically disadvantaged, and thus act as a force for social change and good.
The example of diabetes treatment and research is an excellent example of research that is vital and important to a community, pertains to cultural acts and rituals like food are affected by social circumstances like the availability to exercise, and shows that a participatory approach is not merely theoretical but realistic in the field. Park's theoretical endorsement of research as a co-creative act with a potential to create social justice is not limited to health care education, but religious education as well. Elizabeth Conde-Frazier discusses how the participatory approach can bridge cultural differences even in the intractable field of religious dialogue. "Kushnud Azariah, the first ordained woman in Pakistan and a pioneer of a variety of endeavors in her country, was moved to grapple with the problem of religious intolerance in the curriculum of the schools. Her approach was to create spaces for the dialogue among school administrators, teachers, students, and parents who are Muslim, Hindu, and Christian," when she was attempting to create a more effective curriculum to address academic and social concerns (Conde-Frazier, 2006: 1).
In Pakistan, a culturally sensitive participatory approach was necessary, because many women were not "used to speaking in public.... [or] not used to articulating...
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Indeed, it may be argued that action research is uniquely suited to the conditions within the classroom. So reports the text by Ferrance, which indicates that "action research is a process in which participants examine their own educational practice systematically and carefully, using the techniques of research. It is based on the following assumption. . . teachers and principals work best on problems they have identified for themselves." (p.
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" (Health Care System, Canada, 2007) V. THEORETICAL BASIS of OREM'S SELF-CARE MODEL Social Learning Theory was developed by Bandura (1987, 1986) who held that behavior results from the individual's personal and environmental factors. It was stated in findings of a study reported by Hyndman et al. (1993) that there is a need to change the individual's environment in order to encourage positive health behavior and that there is a need to
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