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• Identity, prejudice and healing

  Feb 25, 2010 by redelk07

  The work of Professor Judy Atkinson in Australia has moved forward a scholarship and practice around what she has called ‘educaring’ as a distinctly Indigenous approach to what may be thought of as a combination of education, therapy, counselling, and community-based social work. The latter constructs are easily identified from mainstream systems that have evolved... more →

  Posted in Artby - Randolph Bowers, Health

• Wholistic Medicine

  Oct 3, 2008 by redelk07

  While the dominant discourse relies on codes and categories that separate for ease of analysis, Indigenous models of knowing rely on awareness of the whole. This awareness is spoken through stories, teachings, and medicines that are interwoven in the language, meaning, and spiritual life of the People. This awareness is lived and known, interacted with... more →

  Posted in Artby - Randolph Bowers, Health