Transcript: The Gap Between the Desired and Current State of Affairs ESL teacher and other teachers who are experts at using these strategies in their classrooms can help prepare materials and teach these skills and strategies to other teachers. 1) Compare ideal situations and reality 2) Assessing strengths and weaknesses of a situation 3) Determine whether or not to go through with a specific project 4) A way to organize ideas Example FFA Insufficient resources in communities, no government policies to combat the issues Development of government policies to provide aid in health, social and economic development For example: lack of access to health care limited number of grocery stores limited resources for struggling students What is a Force Field Analysis? FFA Outcome *Trained 16,000 teachers on the de-worming process *Because of this, 3.5 million children recieved treatment *Cost WHO $0.30/child *Wanting to leave class on time *Respect for one another and each other's time *Being ready to get back into the material References Driving Forces Presenting Problem: Researchers with the World Health Organization found that children in Kenya were ill and missing school due to sickness from unsanitary drinking water. *Lines in the bathroom *Phone calls *Needing to buy coffee or food *Talking with other students *Being unaware of the time By: Hannah McLaughlin, Lisel Neumann, & Amanda May What are the uses of the FFA? Creating a Force Field Analysis for the Community Project: Split up into your community profile groups and create a force field analysis for a specific concern within your community. Force filed analysis: Analyzing the pressures for and against change. Force field analysis-peer collaboration: Building an infrastructure for enhancing technical support. Kenya's national school-based deworming program. World Conference on Social Determinants of Health. National deworming program: Kenya's experience. Community and economic development: Force field analysis. Iowa State University Extension and Outreach. Your Turn! An Introduction to Force Field Analysis Lack of health education regarding sanitation Restraining Forces How is it Used? An Example from Kenya: The Creation and Use of FFA Berkowitz, B. For example, whether or not to update to a new system of technology. It is used by businesses in making important decisions. It could also be utilized in micro social work, employed to weigh individual goals/decisions, or to understand the outside forces affecting a person (client). It can be used in macro social work to understand the forces working with and against a specific community problem or goal. Since its development it has evolved to be used in many different capacities. Coming back from break on time Created by Kurt Lewin, a social psychologist, created the "Force Field Analysis" in the 1950s as a way to portray the forces affecting a central question or problem. 4) Analyze the driving and restraining forces 5) Assign a number to each driving or restraining force 6)Total up the scores from each column 7) From these scores, determine how feasible reaching your change goal is. Transcript: Process by which we look at the restraining forces that act to keep a problem from changing (social structures, cultural traditions, ideology, politics, lack of knowledge, lack of access to healthy conditions, etc.) and the driving forces that push it toward change (dissatisfaction with the way things are, public opinion, policy change, ongoing public education efforts, existing alternatives to unhealthy or unacceptable activity or conditions, etc.) (Community Tool Box) *Like one big pros and cons list* Research and campaigns to treat those that are infected Steps for Creating the FFA 1) Figure out the goal or change that needs to take place 2) Draw the force field diagram (Desired change in the middle, Driving (Positive) forces on the left, and Restraining (negative) forces on the right 3) Brainstorm list of driving and restraining forces, and put them on the chart.
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