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Insight: Integrating social determinants into a pre-clerkship international global health program
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The Community of Inquiry Framework and Metacognition: A practical way to improve critical thinking and metacognitive awareness in students
Get PDFReaching for Collaboration in Insight (and Beyond)
Get PDFThere were two early incomplete attempts to think out practical philosophies in culture. About 2,400 year ago, Plato posed the problem of working out the finest implementable philosophy for culture’s progress. Later, there were Aristotle’s musings: “We must first inquire of what character is a branch. To speak concisely, then, it would seem to be a branch of nothing else than statescraft ”(Aristotle, Magna Moralia). More recently, there were Lonergan’s reachings in Insight - and his beginnings, there, identifying “aspects” of a solution that he named cosmopolis. As pointed to in Insight, the problem is in all disciplines. In this paper, the reader is invited to enter some ways into the science of biology. This concrete context helps further bring out the need for cosmopolis. In Chapter 20 of Insight, Lonergan indicates the need of new kind of collaboration, but “not something altogether new” (Insight, 266). The reaching in Insight brings the question of cosmopolis to a head. This paper ends with a brief mention of Lonergan’s later 1965 breakthrough to a solution which is to be an empirically grounded eightfold collaboration.
Review of Sean McNelis, “Making Progress in Housing”
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Colonial Encounters: Racialized Social Workers Negotiating Professional Scripts of Whiteness
No full textThis article examines the ways in which racialized social workers negotiate the values and practices of a social work profession that is constituted through scripts of whiteness. In particular, I examine how social work imagines itself as a site of social justice and goodness, and the processes through which racialized workers’ desires to be good collide with the racist encounters experienced in everyday sites of practice. I build upon scholarship that critiques the centralization of whiteness in social work and makes visible the liberal foundations of the profession that are implicated in constituting colonial and imperial practices of moral superiority. I argue that the professional values and practices committed to the goals of social justice are the same values and practices that reinstall whiteness and underpin incidents of racial violence. Historically, racialized bodies have been constituted as the Other—subjects to be regulated, controlled, and saved within the colonial project by white, bourgeois subjects. This article, based on interviews with racialized social workers in Canada, examines the dilemmas that emerge when racialized Others become the helpers and perform an identity that historically was never meant for them
The new interprofessional education and curriculum renewal in the Faculty of Medicine at Memorial University: A framework for success?
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