Indigenous Elders' Conceptualization of Wellbeing: An Anishinaabe Worldview Perspective

Servant Leadership: A Worldview Perspective

The concept of worldview is introduced and explored as a framework for creating a philosophical foundation for servant leadership. The author uses the work of Schaeffer (1968), Pearcey (2004), Murphy and Ellis (1996), and MacIntyre (1984, 1988) to demonstrate the fragmented nature of modern philosophic and scientific traditions, how this affects ethics and morality, and how this fragmentation c...

Toward health and wellbeing for indigenous Australians.

The health of indigenous Australians remains well below that of non-indigenous Australians and indigenous peoples in Canada and New Zealand. Although recent planning has initiated many outstanding, culturally appropriate programmes with indigenous involvement, health statistics only reflect marginal improvement in recent years. It is crucial that positive programmes are sustained with appropria...

Conceptualization of practical activities: an information worker’s perspective

This paper presents an analysis of the way that people conceptualize the practical activities comprising their every day work. Although many studies in the areas of human computer interaction and computer-supported collaborative work have indicated that people organize their work around units of work that transcend mere tasks (e.g. a phone call or an e-mail message), we still lack a solid under...

Health literacy and Australian Indigenous peoples: an analysis of the role of language and worldview.

This article delineates specific issues relating to health literacy for Indigenous Australians. Drawing on the extensive experience of the authors' work with Yolnu people (of north-east Arnhem Land) and using one model for health literacy described in the international literature, various components of health literacy are explored, including fundamental literacy, scientific literacy, community ...

Measures of Indigenous wellbeing and their determinants across the lifecourse