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Cosmopolitical obstetrics: Some insights from the training of traditional midwives

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In most countries of the third world, strategies for development in the health sector include efforts to upgrade the skills of village level health care workers, including traditional birth attendants (TBAs). In spite of several decades of experience, training programs for TBAs have not been particularly successful. Drawing on data from several years of ethnographic fieldwork with Maya midwives in Yucatan and on participation in government-sponsored training courses for indigenous midwives, this paper examines some of the reasons underlying this failure. Paramount among these are differences in world view and the misapplication of didactic modes of teaching in situations where learning in the apprenticeship mode in more appropriate and culturally customary.

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  • Jordan, Brigitte, 1989. "Cosmopolitical obstetrics: Some insights from the training of traditional midwives," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 28(9), pages 925-937, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:28:y:1989:i:9:p:925-937
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    1. Carrie R. Leana & Frits K. Pil, 2006. "Social Capital and Organizational Performance: Evidence from Urban Public Schools," Organization Science, INFORMS, vol. 17(3), pages 353-366, June.
    2. Lensjø, Marit, 2020. "Stories of learning: A case study of Norwegian plumbers and apprentices in TVET at the construction site and in a training agency," International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training (IJRVET), European Research Network in Vocational Education and Training (VETNET), European Educational Research Association, vol. 7(2), pages 148-166.
    3. Diane E. Bailey & Stephen R. Barley, 2011. "Teaching-Learning Ecologies: Mapping the Environment to Structure Through Action," Organization Science, INFORMS, vol. 22(1), pages 262-285, February.

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