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Shanon K. Phelan
Researcher at University of Alberta
Publications - 39
Citations - 1046
Shanon K. Phelan is an academic researcher from University of Alberta. The author has contributed to research in topics: Occupational therapy & Reflexivity. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 36 publications receiving 783 citations. Previous affiliations of Shanon K. Phelan include Dalhousie University & University of Western Ontario.
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Picture This . . . Safety, Dignity, and Voice—Ethical Research With Children Practical Considerations for the Reflexive Researcher
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose that researcher reflexivity on ethically important moments lies at the heart of living ethical practice in qualitative research and that the ideals of enabling child safety, dignity, and voice serve as useful guides in the quest for ethical practices in research with children.
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Occupational identity: Engaging socio‐cultural perspectives
TL;DR: This paper propose that socio-cultural theoretical perspectives offer generative insights for advancing conceptualizations of occupational identity, and draw attention to a dialectically oriented understanding about how social and cultural dimensions shape occupational identities.
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Constructions of Disability: A Call for Critical Reflexivity in Occupational Therapy:
TL;DR: This critically reflexive examination has revealed the ways in which occupational therapy and society at large are embedded in discourses that may reinforce negative connotations around disability.
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Silences around occupations framed as unhealthy, illegal, and deviant
TL;DR: The intent in this paper is to both explicate why attention to non-sanctioned occupations is an important means to diversify perspectives on occupation, and point to key framing concepts, such as deviance, hegemony, and resistance, for such scholarship.
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Introducing a Critical Analysis of the Figured World of Occupation
TL;DR: It is suggested that occupational science may have a significant role to play in developing critical understandings of the social construction of occupations as moral or immoral, deviant or normal, and healthy or unhealthy.