[AAACE-NLA] Which medical model?

[AWilder106@aol.com]

George and anyone else.

We simply have to widen the model, widen the framework, there is no other way.  We have to add in educational stuff.  "Stuff" is not a very elegant way of  putting it.  We are teachers, not doctors.

And I do want to say that the political trimmings  now draped around the science model turn it into "scientism," "the theory that investigational methods used in the natural sciences should be applied in all fields of inquiry." When I was in graduate school I was taught that "scientism" was a bad word, a measure of slipshod  thinking.

I don't know how this can be done. How do we fit the woman who still comes to school after being abused by her husband into a medical model?  How education benefits students is not easy and  can take a long time.  The Perry pre-school students have been followed now for maybe 20 years.

Andrea