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The forest and the trees: Theorizing a Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy for medical education

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  • Kakara Anderson, Hannah L.
  • Bullock, Justin L.

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The explicit purpose of medical education is frequently defined as to educate and train physicians who can serve as leaders in providing high-quality, equitable health care for society. Hidden in this explicit purpose is an implicit premise of extraction: those who become physicians are valuable assets who must be separated from society and assimilated into their roles as leaders. Applying Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies as a lens, the authors use Story Cycle methodology to weave personal and literature-based narratives that illuminate, interrogate, and challenge extraction. Finally, they imagine alternative, non-extractive, possibilities for medical education. In doing so, the authors articulate Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy for medical education.

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  • Kakara Anderson, Hannah L. & Bullock, Justin L., 2025. "The forest and the trees: Theorizing a Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy for medical education," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 382(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:382:y:2025:i:c:s0277953625005015
    DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118171
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