学生领导的医疗任务给了阿黛新的租约
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通过与多米尼加共和国的学生一起服务，这位教授找到了新的目标和快乐。
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“I was doing work on domestic violence in highly marginalized communities and asking why everything we try to do appears to make the problem worse,” Aday explained. “I found myself becoming increasingly cynical about the prospects for meaningful social change through laws, law enforcement and formal mechanisms of social control.”
Then he was asked to serve as a faculty advisor to the fledgling student–founded medical mission venture to the Dominican Republic. 接受改变了他的生活。
SOMOS，即医疗拓展与可持续发展学生组织（SOMOS），最初是为多米尼加共和国帕莱索的贫困社区提供简单的医疗救援任务。 Through the students’ desire to move beyond the simple distribution of medicines and Aday’s passion for community-led social justice, it has evolved into a premier research-based civic-engagement project.
戴开始为参与SOMOS的学生讲授一个研讨会。 他强调人种学研究原则和社区建设策略。 很快，他开始陪同这群人前往多米尼加共和国。 He worked in the medical clinic, which provided, he said, the perfect venue to “see all the things that were going on.” He helped “map” the community, utilizing GPS technology as well as arranging interview sessions in selected households. 随着时间的推移，人们确定获得饮用水和洪水是社区成员面临的关键问题。 在索委会准备返回帕莱索时，它准备与当地居民充分合作，开始积极解决这些问题。
在最近的一次录像会议上，当他回顾这次经历时，他称赞了学生们的奉献精神、沉着和专业精神。 他说，就像他教学生一样，他们也教他。
“Ethnography has been my whole career, but ethnographers tend to work by themselves,” he said. “Watching students do the kind of interviewing that I’ve done all my life, and seeing the way they relate and interact, has taught me about the methodology. 我发现各种各样的假设和先入之见都必须被拆解。 If you don’t do that, you only know what you had in your mind when you thought up the question.”
阿黛也被学生和社区居民之间发展起来的关系所感动。
“All you need to do is come with me into the field and watch the joy that is expressed without exception, continuously, as the students move through the community, and watch the way in which people in the community receive and respond to that joy,” he said. “That joy is coming from somewhere. Something about this work, about this project, about what they’re trying to accomplish is inspiring a tremendous amount of joy.”