Expanding health literacy: indigenous youth creating videos.
How can creating videos contribute to expanding health literacy? This article describes a participatory action research project with a group of Canadian Indigenous youth and their teachers. As the youth explored their interests about health and wellness through the artistic creation of videos, they developed a critical consciousness about community, culture, confidence, and control. They became mobilized and obtained information about health and wellness that allowed for the development and expansion of their notion of health literacy that included cultural conceptions of health and wellness.
Stewart
Suzanne
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Department of Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada. slstewart@oise.utoronto.ca
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Ted
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Scott
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Tanaka
Michele
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Janet
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