peter jones
New Collaborator
Registered: Oct 2004
Post Number: 4
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If problems today require interdisciplinary solutions, then tomorrow effective transdisciplinary approaches will be crucial. This is not pie-in-the-sky theorizing. Health and social care are no longer the sole preserve of the clinic or waiting lounge. As the media has shown in diet and younger people, SARS, and AIDs; health is a national and international concern. The environment also begs with increasing urgency for our attention. We are all linked, interdependent: vulnerable. Policy makers recognise the need to engage with people politically and engender personal responsibility. Citizenship is crucial in health and the environment.
The scholastic 3Rs alone are no longer sufficient to equip youngsters for the challenges that lie ahead. Visual literacy and creative, critical and reflective skills are also needed. Is there a generic model that could be taught globally, a basis for a general studies curriculum? Yes there is: but does this tool possess the additional desirable properties in table 1? That is for you to decide…
Table 1
* disarms yet empowers
* is simple yet complex
* local yet global
* applies to individuals and populations
* is neutral or activist
* is able to represent and disseminate
* engages and educates
* and transcends culture, politics, gender, beliefs and ethnicity.
I wondered if the site below may prove a unique place in education?
'h2cm' publicises a health and social care model
** with much wider and universal applications **
- originally created in the UK by Brian E Hodges:
Hodges' Health Career - Care Domains - Model [h2cm]
http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/
h2cm can help map health, social care and other issues, problems AND solutions, taking a situated
and multi-contextual view across four knowledge domains:
* Interpersonal;
* Sociological;
* Empirical;
* Political (Autonomy).
Our links pages cover each care domain, for example - Interpersonal domain links:
http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/links.htm
Political:
http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/linksIV.htm
(inc. human rights, citizenry, poverty/development, community informatics.. )
The ubiquity of information provides the scope to not only think out of the box, but in it as well? More than ever health, the environment and democracy are like pearls threaded on a fine cord called quality of life. If informatics can help integrate the vision and information is the clasp that unifies, what tools do we have to handle this most delicate operation?
Thank you for your time and this place.
Best wishes.
Peter
Lancashire
UK
Peter Jones
http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/
Hodges' Health Career - Care Domains - Model
h2cm: help 2C more - help 2 listen - help 2 care
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