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PhotoVoice is rooted in Wang and Burris (1997), and peer education in Turner and Shepherd (1999).

The Claim

In adolescent health promotion, the use of student-produced public artifacts as a learning and dissemination mechanism draws on the PhotoVoice tradition described by Caroline Wang and Mary Ann Burris (1997) and the peer education tradition described by Graham Turner and Jonathan Shepherd (1999).

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The Short Version

The claim is largely supported, but the connection is partly inferential. The literature clearly ties PhotoVoice to Wang and Burris (1997) and peer education to Turner and Shepherd (1999), and student-created public artifacts in adolescent health promotion reasonably draw from both ideas. However, no strong source explicitly presents this as a formal two-tradition framework.

Caveats

  • No high-authority source in the record explicitly defines student-produced public artifacts in adolescent health promotion as a formal synthesis of PhotoVoice and peer education.
  • PhotoVoice originally emphasized participatory community advocacy, not specifically student-to-student learning or dissemination.
  • Peer education is well established in adolescent health promotion, but its classic literature focuses more on interpersonal communication than on artifact creation.

The Receipts

  1. A method in search of a theory: peer education and health promotion

    PubMed

  2. Photo-Novella: community telling through photography

    PubMed

  3. Photovoice: concept, methodology, and use for participatory needs assessment

    PubMed Central (NIH)

  4. The Peer Education Approach in Adolescents- Narrative Review ...

    PMC

  5. Peer support and young people's health - PubMed

    PubMed

  6. Peer Interventions to Promote Health: Conceptual Considerations

    PubMed Central (National Institutes of Health)

  7. School-based peer education interventions to improve health

    PubMed (National Center for Biotechnology Information)

  8. Photovoice: Concept, Methodology, and Use for Participatory Needs Assessment

    Semantic Scholar

  9. Concept, Methodology, And Use For Participatory Needs Assessment

    National Child Traumatic Stress Network (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services)

  10. Youth Participation in Photovoice as a Strategy for Community Change

    Academic Repository (Wang 2006 PDF)

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Filed Under

Caroline WangGraham TurnerJonathan ShepherdMary Ann BurrisPeer EducationPhotoVoice