The book by Yrjo Engstrom I was referring is titled "Learning, working, and
imagining." It was published in 1990 in Helsinki, Finland by
Orienta-Konsultit Oy. It is a rather rare book and I don't know if it was
republished. You may want to contact Yrjo to get a copy of chapter I was
talking about.
Take care,
Eugene
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rachel Heckert [mailto:heckertkrs@juno.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 1999 8:41 AM
> To: ematusov who-is-at UDel.Edu
> Subject: Re: portfolio assessment
>
>
>
> >As to why I don't like portfolio assessment is specific:
> >
> >1) It seems to be another way of exploitation of teachers by
> >colonization of
> Hi Eugene and list,
>
> >3) I believe that it is communication creates its tools rather than
> tools create >communication. I was really impressed by Yrjo Engstrom's
> work on medical >records (i.e., "portfolio assessment of patents'
> disease") in Finland. He showed >very convincingly that without
> institutional support of communication among doctors, >medical records
> are not very useful (if not harmful).
>
> Could you provide the references for Yrjo's work? I am now in
> public/community health and this is a very important topic - especially
> when patients are of different ethnic cultural groups from doctors/health
> care practitioners and don't know how/have enough status to communicate
> with providers when their well-being is threatened by
> ineffective/inappropriate "information" given to the provider..
>
> Your discussion of "stakeholders" in the education process is also very
> relevant to health care and education, especially now that "cost
> containment" is so high on the value scale of health care providers like
> HMO's. People/patients are not the real intended beneficiaries of health
> education/promotion now - it's the for-profit medical industry and the
> rich who want to pay less taxes.
>
> Rochel Sara Heckert
>
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