Today’s regular newsletter from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)/Doctors without Borders highlights two current projects that use the arts effectively to convey important social issues: a stunning photographic essay with accompanying stories presents slum-dwelling Urban Survivors and a fundraising album of music called Positive Generation compiles songs about the challenges of living with HIV/AIDS. MSF is very deliberately choosing images, stories, and songs as a way of reaching an audience (you and me) – informing us, engaging our interest, and (hopefully) making us care. In doing so, it provides us in TOK with fine examples for discussion of the connection between ways of knowing and the arts, with the relevance to the world sought by the whole IB programme.
Triple A Learning IB Blogs
December 1, 2011
October 26, 2010
International health and illness
After reading Paul Clark’s post on the malaria business, I was inspired to complement this with an anthropological view of the international inequalities of illness.
