Disregarding History: Contemporary IS Contexts and Participatory Design

Disregarding History: Contemporary IS Contexts and Participatory Design

AIDS and contemporary history

calls "the politics of knowledge dissemination", the tension between the desire to enfranchise the masses medically and the need to keep potentially dangerous knowledge in competent hands. These chapters hardly exhaust the subject, of course. Porter's compendious introduction acknowledges as much, but also rightly suggests that the value of this work is not simply that it explores several new p...

History of Contemporary Cultural Psychiatry in Iran:

Cultural psychiatry is one of the relatively new trends in psychiatry that has received much attention today. During the last century, many Iranian psychiatrists have taken steps to introduce various aspects of cultural psychiatry from the field of epidemiology to the cultural conceptualization of psychiatric disorders. This article tries to refer to the history of contemporary cultural psychia...

Participatory Learning in Formal Adult Education Contexts

Formal courses in adult education are most often housed within schools or faculties that include other disciplines such as teacher education, psychology, or training and development. Adult educators teaching these courses may feel obligated to follow the procedures and practices of the institution as well as of the programs with which they are associated. This creates a set of paradoxes and con...

Participatory Behavior in Participatory Design

Participatory design must be more than the formality of having users present or even engaged in “dialogue.” Participatory design is a communicative process prone to miscommunications like those in cross-cultural settings. While team members may belong to the same general culture, their varying occupational and social contexts are subcultures that bring different background assumptions, conventi...