A Brief Commentary on the Hegelian‐Marxist Origins of Gramsci's ‘Philosophy of Praxis’

Hill, Deb J.

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“…The course uses the concept of Personal to encourage students to familiarize their lived space through critical self‐reflection of their past and present experiences. Praxis is a term coined by an Italian Philosopher, Antonio Gramsci (Hill, 2009). In the social medicine course, praxis is applied as a concept to encourage nuanced critical reflection with an action component.…”

Section: The Case Of the Ugandan Social Medicine Coursementioning

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Beyond witnesses: Moving health workers towards analysis and action on social determinants of health

Owilli

Vanessa

Martin

et al. 2022

World Med & Health Policy

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Although critical knowledge of social determinants of health empowers health professionals to confront the causes of inequitable health outcomes, healthcare professionals continue to feel powerless when faced with upstream social and structural issues. Using a case of the social medicine course conducted in Northern Uganda, and the 2016/2017 Uganda medical interns’ movement, we examine the significance of social medicine education in enhancing healthcare professionals’ skills set to address a structural force—medical internship policy. Data sources included key informants, policy documents, blogs, Facebook posts, and YouTube Videos. Data were analyzed using content analysis techniques. Healthcare workers drawing on critical skills and knowledge from the social medicine course training could perform self‐ and problem‐analysis centered within power dynamics; identify avenues to communicate issues of concern; implement constructive dialog and collaborate with stakeholders to influence and halt a medical internship policy discourse through protest on streets and legal channels. Social medicine training and principles empower health workers to function as actors with the required skills and knowledge to initiate and sustain tactical, effective, and meaningful health advocacy directed towards altering social determinants of health that perpetuate social disadvantage with subsequent impact on population health outcomes.

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Section: The Case Of the Ugandan Social Medicine Coursementioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond witnesses: Moving health workers towards analysis and action on social determinants of health

Owilli

Vanessa

Martin

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World Med & Health Policy

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“…The "modern prince" provided Gramsci with a framework for developing sane and supple responses to a range of fanatics, radicals, and mechanistic Marxists whose ready-made answers to daunting questions reduced the work of praxis to a predictable and self-perpetuating system [132]. Against abstract and indefensible speculations about the natural course of progress, Gramsci labored to ground political responsibility in concrete conditions that required the interventions of human agency; without it, the left loses opportunities to advance from one trench of history to the next [133].…”

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The Importance of Sociology of Education for a Sustainable Future

2022

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“…El desarrollo del trabajo social no ha sido simplemente una cuestión de elecciones hechas por pioneras/os ni una "evolución natural" de teorías y prácticas. Una investigación histórico-dialéctica contrarresta la ficción de un registro puramente basado en el "progreso" y la libertad de elección -desprovisto de interpretación contextual-y permite sondear el impacto de los conflictos y fuerzas estructurales en la configuración profesional (Hill, 2009). En este sentido, Hill (2009, p.612) sostiene que: Los principios universales e históricos de los derechos y la justicia, al haber sido asociados al retrato individualista de la humanidad que promovió el capitalismo, se ofrecieron como grados de libertad totalmente inconsistentes con las estructuras efectivamente impuestas a los sujetos.…”

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Historiografías del Trabajo Social Sudafricano: desafiando los discursos dominantes

Harms-Smith

2021

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La tarea de examinar los orígenes y el desarrollo del trabajo social está plagada de narrativas en disputa. En Sudáfrica prevalecen los discursos individualistas, liberales, coloniales, masculinos y “blancos”. Desde una perspectiva histórico-dialéctica, en vez de narrar el “progreso” cronológico de la profesión y disciplina, se enfatiza en cómo las dinámicas sociopolíticas y económicas dan forma al trabajo social, que a su vez tiene un papel en la configuración de dichas dinámicas. Se cuestiona la ficción de registros puramente centrados en las ideas de progreso y libertad de elección, y se develan discursos hegemónicos y contrahegemónicos. Se insta a las/os trabajadores sociales a que se comprometan con toda la complejidad de los acontecimientos que surgen de los antagonismos de clase y raza de la sociedad sudafricana. para cautivar la tradición más crítica del trabajo social en América Latina y estimular estudios e intervenciones sociales construidos a partir de la vida concreta de los pueblos latinoamericanos.

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A Brief Commentary on the Hegelian‐Marxist Origins of Gramsci's ‘Philosophy of Praxis’

Cited by 4 publications

References 17 publications

Beyond witnesses: Moving health workers towards analysis and action on social determinants of health

Beyond witnesses: Moving health workers towards analysis and action on social determinants of health

The Importance of Sociology of Education for a Sustainable Future

Historiografías del Trabajo Social Sudafricano: desafiando los discursos dominantes

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