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Session This lesson uses small group activities and a discussion to introduce the course objectives and
learning community to learners.
Overview
Date/Time: Session #3
Assignments 1. Minkler, Wallace, McDonald. “The Political Economy of Health: A Useful Theoretical Tool for
Education Practice. (1994)
& Readings 2. The World Health Organization. (2010). A conceptual framework for action on the social
Due Today determinants of health.
3. Gabor Mate: Why Capitalism is making us sick. Start to 12.00
Lesson: 10 min
Review the Agreements created last class. Ask if there are any questions or
comments folks would like to share regarding what was agreed upon.
Mind Stretch #2:
Respond to the follow quote: “Until lions have their own historians, tales of the
hunt will always glorify the hunter.” African Proverb
1. What role does telling our own story play in securing our humanity and
liberation?
2. What role has privilege played in US history?
3. How might we shift the manner in which history is told?
Allow a few students to share their response to the quote with the full group or in
pairs.
Reiterate that this course is deeply rooted in fist person narratives and that
everything we examine will include the perspectives of those often intentionally
excluded from American History.
10 min
Assign Testimonio
Read the Testimonio assignment out load with students. Answer any questions
they may have about the assignment.
Pair share: Ask students to turn to a partner and share the possible title of their
narrative. Anzaldua’s is Speaking in Tongue
5 min Explain that we are going to begin to explore the significance of the Political
Economy of Health
Ask students to find a classmate with the same quote as them. Allow students time
to make meaning of their quote together and collaborate their responses.
Ask students to find classmate with a different quote than them. They should read
their quotes to each other and explain the meaning of their quote to one another.
Ask students to take a seat after sharing their quotes with each other. Ask a few
students to share their quotes with the full group.
Mini Lecture:
Ask students to help you define the Political Economy of Health
Share some iteration of the following definition: “analysis and perspectives on
health policy for the understanding of the conditions which shape population
health and health service development within the wider macroeconomic and
political context.” Dr Jaime Llambias-Wolff
Historical Analysis
Power Class and Class Conflict
The Role of the State
Consciousness Raising
Ask class to generate a list of present day policies that impact the lived conditions,
health and well being of people in the United States. Write student’s response on
the board.
Show the following Clip form The People Speak about Japanese Internment:
https://vimeo.com/1303527
5 min
Name Tent: Allow students to respond to clip in tent OR share their
reflection/understanding of the PEH
Assignments Reading:
1. Tara Yosso, “Whose Culture has Capital?”. (2005)
Given Today
Write:
1. Use the Community Cultural Wealth graphic organizer as you read to take notes
Watch:
1. Media Clip: Zinn “The People Speak” (time tbd)
At the individual level is situational power, which involves the ability to make
concrete decisions within the existing rules of the game. The ability for
individual citizens to vote is an example of situational power. p.115
The second level of power is organizational and involves the ability to define
the rules of the game, as when elites elites and powerful organizations
determine which issues become topics of debate. p. 115
Power and class interests also extend to determining what gets defined (or
not defined) as a health or social problem and how we treat (or do not treat)
these problems on a broad societal level. p.116