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(2018) Interdisciplinary place-based learning in urban education, Dordrecht, Springer.
Visualizing medicine
mapping connections with plague inc. to learn in the interdisciplinary classroom
Sandra Cheng , Aida L. Egues , Gwen Cohen-Brown
pp. 111-132
City Tech's course, Healing the Body: The Visual Culture of Medicine, explores the juncture of art and medicine using a multi-disciplinary approach. Taught by faculty experts in art history, nursing, and pathology, students investigate a range of issues in visual culture through three themes dedicated to representations of the medical body, disease and illness, and healing and treatment. Mapping serves as a representational and metaphorical construct for connecting the units, and it is central to several course lessons on epidemiology. In lieu of a conventional, place-based learning activity, students access a virtual world by playing the game Plague Inc. The interactive nature of the game helps to enhance student learning about the multiple variables of disease transmission.
Publication details
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-66014-1_6
Full citation:
Cheng, S. , Egues, A. L. , Cohen-Brown, G. (2018)., Visualizing medicine: mapping connections with plague inc. to learn in the interdisciplinary classroom, in S. P. macdonald & R. D. Lansiquot (eds.), Interdisciplinary place-based learning in urban education, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 111-132.
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