How did undertaking the OBL activity help deepen your understanding of health inequities as social issues? How did the object / artworks connect to required (and other) topic readings undertaken?

Critical Social Analysis of Health

Task:
Tutorials and online teaching will use artworks f rom the Flinders University Museum of Art in Object Based Learning (OBL) activities to support learning about health inequities, and the value of applying sociological concepts to understand health issues as social problems.

Choose one of the OBL activities as the basis of this report:
A. Privilege and power in health
B. Social construction of ageing
C. Gendered health

Write a report on the chosen activity addressing these questions:

Describe
Look again at the objects / artworks f rom the chosen activity and describe the f ollowing:
– What is/are the work(s)? Who produced them, when and where?

Interpret
– How did undertaking the OBL activity help deepen your understanding of health inequities as social issues?
– How did the object / artworks connect to required (and other) topic readings undertaken?

Outcome
– What new ideas, ways of seeing or questions do you have about the ‘social model of health’?
– What elements of the OBL activity might inf luence or inspire your approach to prof essional practice in the f uture?