Every day during September we will post up an idea for you to vote on. The most popular ideas will become the things that the inaugural Organizing Committee of the Critical Physiotherapy Network focuses on in 2015. So please make sure you cast your vote at the bottom of each post. One of the best things about starting this group has been finding out about the research that other people are doing. Critical physiotherapists are such a rarefied species that it's hard to find their work and keep track of what they are doing. I've found out, for instance, that there is a huge network of physiotherapists interested in phenomenology in Scandinavia. I knew of some of the people in the … [Read more...] about Idea 4: Profile group members (3 mins)
Idea 3: A critical curriculum for physiotherapy schools (2 mins)
Every day during September we will post up an idea for you to vote on. The most popular ideas will become the things that the inaugural Organizing Committee of the Critical Physiotherapy Network focuses on in 2015. So please make sure you cast your vote at the bottom of each post. Physiotherapists like to treat the body-as-machine. They like quantitative research, clinical skills and definitional clarity, and they've held on to their biomedical principles through good times and bad. In some ways, this is understandable. Without an alternative curriculum to work from, how are people schooled in biological determinism going to know which direction to take their curriculum in? And … [Read more...] about Idea 3: A critical curriculum for physiotherapy schools (2 mins)
Idea 2: Publishing in people’s first language (2 mins)
Every day during September we will post up an idea for you to vote on. The most popular ideas will become the things that the inaugural Organizing Committee of the Critical Physiotherapy Network focuses on in 2015. So please make sure you cast your vote at the bottom of each post. The Critical Physiotherapy Network has quickly become an international collective. We have people from 17 countries who speak at least 10 different languages. While we've conducted most of our business thus far in English, that doesn't mean we don't recognize that this is problematic and try to be a bit more inclusive in the way we share our ideas. It would be a bit hypocritical for us to claim that we … [Read more...] about Idea 2: Publishing in people’s first language (2 mins)