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devohoneybee at 04:17pm on 05/03/2013
devohoneybee at 04:17pm on 05/03/2013A serious (and very constructive!) idea with an amusing name, positive deviance is about a strategy of problem solving that starts with "what is already working well" and builds from there.
This article talks about how the principle was applied to raise nutrition among severely undernourished children in Vietnam, and talks about how building from a community's strengths and preferred ways of doing things works better than imposing external, top-down solutions.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/27/when-deviants-do-good/
This article talks about how the principle was applied to raise nutrition among severely undernourished children in Vietnam, and talks about how building from a community's strengths and preferred ways of doing things works better than imposing external, top-down solutions.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/27/when-deviants-do-good/