Dr. Virginia Dickie - 2009 Virginia Dickie, PhD, OTR Associate Professor and Director, Division of Occupational Science, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Are occupations ‘processes too complicated to explain'? What we can learn by trying The life history of a pot is used as a device to demonstrate how pottery making incorporates not only those who make the pots and their actions, but also materials, social systems, history, aesthetics, and much more. I suggest that the life history rubric provides a structure to compare across systems of production and cultures, or to expand analysis at any stage. Finally, Dewey's transactional perspective is proposed as a theoretical perspective that supports study of occupations in their complexity. |
