*Call*
* for Students: NAPA-OT Field School in Antigua, Guatemala *The NAPA-OT
Field School in Antigua, Guatemala is now recruiting anthropology,
occupational therapy public health, and other social science students for
its four-week summer session: June 1 - 26, 2015.
The field school offers transdisciplinary learning to promote leadership in
social justice through collaboration with Guatemala-based NGO and other
community partners.
*Graduate students and upper division undergraduate majors in applied or
medical anthropology or related social sciences are encouraged to apply via
our website www.napaotguatemala.org <http://www.napaotguatemala.org/> by
December 31, 2014. *
The field school is a project of the NAPA-OT SIG (National Association for
the Practice of Anthropology - Occupational Therapy and Occupational
Science Interdisciplinary Special Interest Group) of the American
Anthropological Association. Faculty include anthropologists and
occupational therapists with credentials and interests in health care
access and human rights, child development, and public health.
The objectives of the program are:
· To explore efforts to achieve social justice in Guatemala, a country with
a history of ethnic and class violence
· To examine health disparities in Guatemala through applied medical
anthropology theory and human rights discourse
· To understand the determinants of health and basic epidemiology in
developing nations
· To provide a transdisciplinary fieldwork opportunity to students of
occupational therapy, anthropology, and related subjects
· To promote social justice through partnerships in and around Antigua,
Guatemala with NGOs, community groups, health care workers, and other
social change agents
· To explore the concept of “occupational justice” as an emerging practice
area in occupational therapy and applied anthropology
*Applicants students will have the opportunity to work in one of three
project groups:*
- * NGOs Networks and Perspectives of Child Migration: Examining
Perceptions of Root Causes*
- *Pediatric Practice: Interrelationships of Play, Nutrition, and Early
Child Development*
- *Sustainable Social Enterprise for Water: Social Justice, Community
Development, and Household Occupations*
Students also will study Spanish a minimum of 9 hours per week, working
one-on-one with certified language instructors at their own level and
pace. Visit our website for more information at www.napaotguatemala.org.
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Rachel Hall-Clifford, PhD, MPH, MSc
In-Country Director
NAPA-OT Field School, Guatemala
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