Building bridges and blurring lines: the value of reflexivity in CYC-based humanitarian practice

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dc.contributor.authorVradenburg, Kim
dc.contributor.supervisorScott, Daniel G.
dc.date.accessioned2008-03-04T00:28:56Z
dc.date.available2008-03-04T00:28:56Z
dc.date.copyright2007en_US
dc.date.issued2008-03-04T00:28:56Z
dc.degree.departmentSchool of Child and Youth Careen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis research suggests that Child and Youth Care based reflexive practice contributes to crucial shifts in perspective in both international and national staff in humanitarian contexts, and blurs the line between beneficiaries and practitioners in humanitarian intervention. I maintain that national staff (people hired in country by international organisations) to care for affected populations in humanitarian contexts are a distinct group within a vulnerable population, and with whom integrative, focused efforts in practitioner development must be made. Specifically, this research suggests that an emphasis on reflexive practice with this group in Malawi, Sierra Leone and Sudan facilitated small but crucial increments of human change processes which led to increased responsibility as part of developing practitioner identity and wider social change. All of this is important if effective practice towards targeted beneficiaries and humanitarian protection aims are to be fully realized.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/319
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectreflexivityen_US
dc.subjectCYCen_US
dc.subjecthumanitarianen_US
dc.subjectvulnerabilityen_US
dc.subjecthuman change processesen_US
dc.subjectselfen_US
dc.subject.lcshUVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciencesen_US
dc.titleBuilding bridges and blurring lines: the value of reflexivity in CYC-based humanitarian practiceen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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