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To the SSA, illness is only relevant in relation to whether and to what degree it impacts a person’s capacity to work. As Rosemarie Garland Thompson argues, this presumes that ill health, disability, and impairment are located only in the body and not also in the broader social, political, and geographical context that comprises the individual’s social determinants of health.
Health Communism
Beatrice Adler-Bolton;Artie Vierkant
The cognitive maturity fallacy occurs when one takes as a given capabilities that are actually hard-won developmental achievements. An integral meta-theory of education rejects the cognitive maturity fallacy, and thus affirms a developmental view of human learning and education. This is perhaps best summarized by saying that __humans grow and learn according to qualitatively distinct and sequentially-unfolding developmental levels of capacity, which are ethically, epistemologically, and politically important.__
Education in a Time Between Worlds
Zachary Stein
There are no major global challenges that do not have critical educational dimensions. Many key challenges are primarily educational in nature. This is just another way of saying that __changing the trajectory of the world-system requires changing how people think and act, which can only be done by finding ways to affect valued and needed transformations of human capabilities.__ Human development and education are often the elephant in the room when it comes to calls for system-level change.
Education in a Time Between Worlds
Zachary Stein
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