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Alice's Reading Notes for 2/3

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Dell Clark

INTRO

Children as their own "shamanic healers"

"Imaginal coping"

role of fantasy, ritual, play

attention to lived experience of suffering in context

unusual for health programs to address the whole child

need for adults to bravely and respectfully listen

How is Dell Clark's research method like Moll's et al in "Funds of Knowledge?"

Do you think an ethnographic approach is important to the work of empowering learners?

Would you say Dell Clark is successfully "suspending damage," in Tuck's terms?

CH 1

biomedical discourse is one among many, biomedical approaches are culturally valued as benign and targeted to privileged people when in fact they are not necessarily either

kids focus on treatment experience as central part of illness

Metaphor sort technique: so interesting!  Let's kids connect in ways that make sense to them, and that invite imagination (ie girl talks about a fence that isn't pictured)

p. 14: changing the question from what's wrong to how do people keep it so often right?

narrative of illess -- key moments, ie hospitalization, parent training/re-socialization

a new normal, and limits

passing

stigma

ritual as a "framework for expectancy"

trauma