"A domain wall is a type of topological soliton that occurs whenever a discrete symmetry is spontaneously broken. Domain walls are also sometimes called kinks in analogy with closely related kink solution of the sine-Gordon model or models with polynomial potentials.[1][2][3] Unstable domain walls can also appear if spontaneously broken discrete symmetry is approximate and there is a false vacuum.A domain (hyper volume) is extended in three spatial dimensions and one time dimension. A domain wall is the boundary between two neighboring domains. Thus a domain wall is extended in two spatial dimensions and one time dimension.
Important examples are:
- Domain wall (magnetism), an interface separating magnetic domains
- Domain wall (optics), for domain walls in optics
- Domain wall (string theory), a theoretical 2-dimensional singularity."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_wall
conceptual spaces threshold concepts [#h2cm as] relational ontology | magnetism optics string theory |
a space to tell stories of and compare walls seek openings so many spaces of / to welcome | these walls: are they necessary? whose needs do they meet? we know walls listen and talk too who do they protect? who do the respect? |
Following a thread on twitter:
A further query followed:4 #h2cm can be a generic conceptual framework for all disciplines: health, education,
— Peter Jones (@h2cm) February 14, 2021
contexts: development, edtech, socio-tech*
So scope *global* (utopic?) – more pragmatically - a utility across communities of practice.
*Plus other domain 'bridges': https://t.co/SqzQQnYuKz
"can be", but is it?
— Peter Jones (@innov8tor3) February 15, 2021
What would you say has stopped that from happening?
The short answer is clearly that Hodges' model isn't the generic conceptual framework, it follows that it is not global either. The reasons why are many and I've posted about several over the years, indirectly and more recently in a more direct manner:
Hodges' model and trial by vampires ...
I thought it might be useful to outline the reasons here along the INDIVIDUAL - GROUP axis.
(Peter) overthinking - h2cm is an overvalued idea - formulating the - too much thought not enough action - sense of ownership (Hodges') not my model - too many ideas spoils the broth - is Peter holding on to this...? - evidence of a personal initiative ? - - Peter needs a mentor - calls for reflection/crit. thinking seem rhetorical - nurse 1st - |
- SAFETY:
- - where is the data, evidence, theory, proof? - 1980s - it is archaic - research question - not invented here: city, region, geography - academia has moved on (models out of fashion) - it is too simplistic - it is too complicated - where's the 'new' website/platform - how long does it take [former site 1998-2015*]? - a means to facilitate parity of esteem is missed - the project's Petered out! |
sense of ownership - not our [CoP] model - not invented here: culturally non-neutral - rename the domains they're too 'academic' no interest, partners, collaborators - Jones needs to stop blogging/tweeting - it is a waste of time ... RT - not endorsement :: or even interest - |
- sense of ownership - not our model - not invented here (inst./nationalism/political) - copyright? It's CC - Oh we see ... - funding for research / studies - - (MRES 2017 self-funded) - what are the benefits (across the model and spiritually)? - this approach smells of a tick-box approach, a means to a universal multidisciplinary worker? - Wigan Pier does not have a Jet d'Eau |
CoP - Community of Practice
*Former website: (Web.archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20110903000318/http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/index.htm )
"Working in West Berlin in 1984, the British photographer John Davies became fascinated by the Wall as a symbol of the cruelty of the cold war. When he returned this year to shoot the same locations, he found a city healed and changed beyond recognition." p. 25.
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We are accustomed to defensive care and medicine.
Costs aside it seems the driving mantra (always served with a smile) is avoid risk at all cost; but we also recognise the need to balance risk in its negative and positive forms.
When it comes to thinking about care though we need to be open to new ideas, territories and opportunities and what being defensive means in practice and theory in the 21st century.
Additional links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offa%27s_Dyke
It is unlikely that the Dyke was constructed as a defensive earthwork. No army of the period could defend a 120 plus mile long earthwork. It is more likely that the Dyke was constructed as a political statement of power and intent.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Wall_of_China
Let's start with a quote:
Information systems are no longer associated mainly with data processing; they are increasingly seen as a management tool and an aid to action. This means that the costs of failure are much greater, and these costs are incurred when expensive systems are not used or are inadequately used. Surveys have shown that in as many as half of systems there are large gaps between users' expectations and the system's performance.
Mumford Enid (1991) Need for relevance in management information systems: what the NHS can learn from industry. BMJ. June 29; 302(6792): 1587–1590
If you approach the world positively, a downturn is a good time for innovation. The shortage of people and money can create the pressure that leads to creativity. There are three areas where action will help organisations succeed in exploiting IT to enable business innovation:
Kick out Prince2
What more is there to say about innovation and Prince2? The focus of the Prince2 project management methodology – on organisation and control, and defining what to deliver before you have begun – is death to innovation. It is a bad solution trying to solve the wrong problem. It takes the IT profession in the wrong direction if we want to contribute to business innovation. It has to go. The agile development movement provides much stronger foundations for succeeding with projects that result in business innovation.
Ashurst, Colin, Viewpoint: How to use IT to enable innovation, Computing, 5 November, 2009.Of course there IS a world of difference between information standards and project management standards, but there is no escape from the need for (effective) management of transition and change WITH business continuity. Within that management - engagement approach (as per agile) -
When you are on a course you really have - quite rightly - to do things by-the-book. That is the way - they say - you learn which corners of the pages you can turnover. Students learn early on that you have to jump through various hoops in order to complete the course and earn the stripes. The art and science of caring presents its own hoops, but in addition it is thresholds that present a barrier, thresholds that need to be negotiated in order to meet need.
Suddenly this is not about one person (you) it is about a partnership. A partnership of professionals allied and directly collaborating with a 'patient' and their carers.
One of the hoops is the paper or electronic referral form. Are you still sure this referral of yours is necessary? Are those two assessments really necessary?
There are a host of thresholds that may (or may not?) shift like a tide around the local and increasingly extended health and social care community, or 'economy' if you prefer, for example:
The threshold at which a nursing home will contact a GP surgery; or mental health services?
Just exactly what is residential care's capacity to cope internally and manage with a given range of health and social care challenges? What exactly should that capacity be? Should the public have access to referral data from care homes - to accident and emergency, mental health services, primary care? What proportion of 'referral problems' are dealt with at the nursing - social work level? What is the mental health service's threshold in terms of responding to a referral? What is the threshold for relatives believing that sufficient is being done for their loved one?
As lifelong learners of course we are all perennial hoop jumpers, learning the art of scaling and re-framing the thresholds that cross our way.
Image sources:
Seed-and-threshold segmentation
hula hoop (no longer available)
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| Brian E. Hodges - c/o Brian's family. |
Born in Liverpool, NW England, UK.
Community Mental Health Nurse NHS, Part-time Lecturer,
Researcher Nursing & Technology Enhanced Learning
Registered Nurse - Mental Health & General
Community Psychiatric Nursing (Cert.) MMU
PG Cert. Ed.
BA(Joint Hons.) Computing and Philosophy - BIHE - Bolton
PG(Dip.) Collaboration on Psychosocial Education [COPE] Univ. Man.
MRES. e-Research and Technology Enhanced Learning, Lancaster Univ.
Live and work in NW England - seeking a global perspective.
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