The Procedure
APPENDIX G
THE PROCEDURE
The team spent the period November 10-13 in tooling up for the project. As a by-product of this activity they produced one complete lesson in malaria control and a parallel lesson in leprosy control. The sequence of the work is set forth below.
- The team first drew up a list of question-types which they thought would enable the student to elicit the content vocabulary of a specialized field.
- Within the general areas of 'malaria control' and 'leprosy control,' the team then listed several component activities in which volunteers would spend much of their time. For the tooling-up period, they then selected one of these sub-specialties for malaria, and one for leprosy. The centers of interest that they selected were 'Spraying' and 'Examining Patients for Leprosy.'
- The list of question-types was adapted for each subspecialty. The results for 'Spraying' and 'Leprosy Examinations' are reproduced on pp. 161-164.
- Hirth and Brinkman provided in English multiple answers to each question in the indices, based on their own experience of the needs of health Volunteers in Thailand. Their answers were then edited and translated into Thai. Parallel samples are found on pages 165-170. (Throughout the project, Thai and English were placed on consecutive pages. Because few of the readers of this account can be expected to read Thai, and in order to conserve space and the reader's time, most of the samples will be given in English only. )
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