Prompt: Ideal relationship between art and sciences inside the projected career path or current discipline.
Free write Brainstorm idea:
I personally feel in the field of physical therapy both science and arts go hand and hand amongst that career. The way that Yo-Yo Ma describes the arts to incorporate empathy I feel is one of the most needed things to be a successful physical therapist. If it was not for the empathy towards your client their strive to get better would not be achieved, and if they keep failing rather than just giving up on them as a “lost hope”, you need the empathy to be able to keep motivating them and being able to still give them positive attitudes even when failing to achieve a certain goal. Physical Therapy of course has strong relations to the science field as most of my classes in university are geared towards scientific learning and thought processes. One thing I feel that UNE does really well, for being a well known science school, requires all students to at least one fine arts program, which I feel is great because the learning and throughout processes in those class may better shape the learner you are, or provide you with new ideas to use in your science fields. Lehrer’s paper is a great way to describe the sciences and arts in the path I am going towards. A lot of his arguments are that science needs art in order to keep finding out new information about the world around us and I believe that pertains to my career. There are numerous new amounts of research and information being done towards new methods of healing a body and the body itself. I feel like the arts play a key component in allowing us to believe that there are new forms of processes and ideas to look into when looking at the human body and I feel these arts have shaped the career of physical therapy to what it has became today. Pinker’s ideas I feel did not have to much connection in my field, I can see others where they may be over done with the science concepts but I truly feel that there is a balance between the arts and sciences in the field of Physical Therapy.
