Book contents
- Agency and Transformation
- Agency and Transformation
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Motives, Mediation and Motion
- Chapter 2 Toward a Power-Sensitive Conceptualization of Transformative Agency
- Chapter 3 The Tasks of Reality and Reality As the Task
- Chapter 4 A Relational View of a Future-Orientated Pedagogy
- Chapter 5 From Future Orientation to Future-Making
- Chapter 6 Excluded Lives
- Chapter 7 Children’s and Youth’s Civic Projects and Responsible Agency
- Chapter 8 Decolonizing Agency
- Chapter 9 Unpacking Social Articulation of Agency
- Chapter 10 The Emancipatory Nature of Transformative Agency
- Chapter 11 Choice in Childbirth, Agency and Collective Action
- Chapter 12 Transformative Agency by Double Stimulation in an Ecological Agroforestry Association from Brazil
- Chapter 13 Transformative Agency and the Cultivation of Innovations in Frontline Homelessness Work
- Chapter 14 Children’s Agency during the COVID-19 Pandemic in China
- Chapter 15 Agency As the Direction and Reach of Actions
- Index
- References
Chapter 11 - Choice in Childbirth, Agency and Collective Action
Cesarean Sections and Birth Plans in Brazil
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 November 2023
Book contents
- Agency and Transformation
- Agency and Transformation
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Motives, Mediation and Motion
- Chapter 2 Toward a Power-Sensitive Conceptualization of Transformative Agency
- Chapter 3 The Tasks of Reality and Reality As the Task
- Chapter 4 A Relational View of a Future-Orientated Pedagogy
- Chapter 5 From Future Orientation to Future-Making
- Chapter 6 Excluded Lives
- Chapter 7 Children’s and Youth’s Civic Projects and Responsible Agency
- Chapter 8 Decolonizing Agency
- Chapter 9 Unpacking Social Articulation of Agency
- Chapter 10 The Emancipatory Nature of Transformative Agency
- Chapter 11 Choice in Childbirth, Agency and Collective Action
- Chapter 12 Transformative Agency by Double Stimulation in an Ecological Agroforestry Association from Brazil
- Chapter 13 Transformative Agency and the Cultivation of Innovations in Frontline Homelessness Work
- Chapter 14 Children’s Agency during the COVID-19 Pandemic in China
- Chapter 15 Agency As the Direction and Reach of Actions
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter explores two experiences in which transformative agency and the elaboration of innovative mediating artifacts contributed to change in childbirth care in Brazil. In the first case, we analyze how an organized group of women built cultural tools to expose the excess of cesarean sections in the private health sector, leading to change in regulatory policy. In the second case, we analyze the elaboration of an institutional birth plan model in a formative intervention inspired by the Change Laboratory methodology. Both experiences can be understood as efforts to promote social participation and informed choice, using mediating artifacts to foster agency. The processes ignited by them are also analyzed by the perspective of pedagogy of autonomy as proposed by Freire, in the sense that women are able to build knowledge and act on that knowledge in a meaningful and effective way.
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- Agency and TransformationMotives, Mediation, and Motion, pp. 265 - 288Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023
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