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Preventative Health Strategies and the Humanities: SDG3 and Me Interview with Professor Matthew Smith
Matthew Smith is Professor of Health History at the University of Strathclyde and co-editor of Palgrave Macmillan's 'Mental Health in Historical Perspective' book series. He is author of 'The First Resort: The History of Social Psychiatry in the United States'.
Fragmented Knowledge or Connective Learning?
What do you think of the effectiveness of school curricula in creating an intellectual student?
Can we look at history through the lens of physics ?
Does the flow of social events bear any resemblance to the flow of fluids ? Are there Eulerian and Lagrangian approaches to look at the history of our civilisation ? We may not have the answers yet, but we can
start the conversation.
Regenerative and restorative pedagogy: A transdisciplinary paradigm for planetary consciousness development
If we want to do justice to the Earth and its inhabitants, we must uphold regenerative and restorative pedagogy grounded in ethical and critical values, such as social justice, caring ethics, eco-critical views, and critical digital pedagogy.