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Contemplative Reflective Practice, Conocimiento, And Continuing Medical Education, Barbara Shaw Anderson Jun 2006

Contemplative Reflective Practice, Conocimiento, And Continuing Medical Education, Barbara Shaw Anderson

Adult Education Research Conference

Contemplative reflective practices, exemplified by Remen and Kabat-Zinn, nurture “subversive knowledges” that can help physicians and their educators address ethical issues in the health care system. Continuing medical education should encourage physicians to become what Varela terms “ethical experts.”


"Soy Tú. Soy Él": African Immigration And Otherness In The Spanish Collective Conscience, Michael Ugarte Jan 2006

"Soy Tú. Soy Él": African Immigration And Otherness In The Spanish Collective Conscience, Michael Ugarte

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

The commonly heard statement "Spain is different" contains a series of contradictions, paradoxes, and questions concerning Iberia's place within the global community, a community that is itself deeply contradictory—more and more the same and yet more and more fragmented. Immigration highlights the sameness/otherness dichotomy in Spanish culture, and the situation of African immigrants has especially caused the Spanish national consciousness an ethical quandary. Here I examine four recent cultural representations of African immigration in Spain—two journalistic works: Mikel Azurmendi's Estampas del Ejido and Antonio Elorza's articles in El País; and two documentary films: Básel Ramsis's El otro lado: un …