Search results for "Professional development"
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Promoting inter‐professional teamwork and learning – the case of a surgical operating theatre
2010
Hospitals, and surgical operating theatres (OTs) in particular, are environments in which inter‐professional teamwork and learning are essential to secure patient safety and effective practice. However, it has been revealed in many studies that inter‐professional collaborative work in hospital organisations faces many challenges and constraints. In this study we examine surgical operations as participatory practices from the perspective of inter‐professional learning and cooperation. We ask what kinds of shared practices enable learning and collaboration within the surgical operating team. We used an ethnographic approach to data collection including observations and interviews of surgical …
Factors promoting vocational students’ learning at work: study on student experiences
2012
In order to promote effective pedagogical practices for students’ work-based learning, we need to understand better how students’ learning at work can be supported. This paper examines the factors explaining students’ workplace learning (WPL) outcomes, addressing three aspects: (1) student-related individual factors, (2) social and structural features of workplace and (3) educational practices related to the organising of WPL periods. The data were collected from final-year vocational students (N = 3106, n = 1603) via an Internet questionnaire. The findings from regression analysis showed that students’ WPL outcomes cannot be seen merely as consequences of student-related individual factors…
Practice-based learning and innovation in nursing homes
2020
Purpose This paper aims to investigate the conditions under which learning and innovation occur within nursing homes by focusing on how the dynamics of the distribution and transformation of ideas and knowledge may be viewed as a prerequisite for innovation in both formal, planned learning situations and informal, everyday practices. Design/methodology/approach Data was produced via fieldwork, which included participant observations, conversations and research interviews with staff and managers at a Norwegian nursing home. The paper is inspired by situated learning theories and communities of practice, as the social context emerges as the site where learning and innovation are cultivated. …
Integrating theory and practice? Employees’ and students’ experiences of learning at work
2003
The integration of theory and practice has been recognised as one of the key questions in the development of professional expertise and vocational competence. In this study the question of how theory and practice meet each other during professional development was approached from the point of view of two different groups of learners: employees with varying length of work experience and university students taking a working life project course. Altogether 18 employees and 51 students were interviewed, after which transcribed interviews were qualitatively categorised. The opinions expressed by the informants indicate that work‐based learning is not a unified phenomenon but varies in different …
A multidimensional adapted process model of teaching
2021
AbstractIn the present study, we aimed to specify the key competence domains perceived to be critical for the teaching profession and depict them as a comprehensive teacher competence model. An expert panel that included representatives from seven units providing university-based initial teacher education in Finland carried out this process. To produce an active construction of a shared understanding and an interpretation of the discourse in the field, the experts reviewed literature on teaching. The resulting teacher competence model, the multidimensional adapted process model of teaching (MAP), represents a collective conception of the relevant empirical literature and prevailing discours…
Pirmsskolas skolotāju emocionālā izdegšanas profilakse kā profesionālās pilnveides iespēja
2015
Diplomdarba “Pirmsskolas skolotāju emocionālās izdegšanas profilakse kā profesionālās pilnveides iespēja” mērķis bija izpētīt pirmsskolas skolotāju emocionālās izdegšanas tendences un tās profilakses iespējas. Pētījuma ietvaros tika izvirzīti pētījuma jautājumi- kāds ir pirmsskolas skolotāju emocionālās izdegšanas līmenis? Un kādas ir emocionālās izdegšanas profilakses iespējas? Pētījumā piedalījās 40 pirmsskolas skolotājas, vecumā no 20-61 gadam, vidējais vecums 38,45 gadi. Respondentu darba pieredze ir no 7 mēnešiem līdz 44 gadiem, vidējā darba pieredze ir 12,3 gadi. Lai atbildētu uz pētījuma jautājumiem tika izmantotas sekojošas pētniecības metodes: K.Maslačas skolotāju izdegšanas aptauj…
Latvijas Angļu valodas skolotāju asociācijas ieguldījums skolotāju profesionālajā pilnveidē Latvijā
2017
Diplomdarba mērķis bija izpētīt profesionālo pilnveidi Angļu valodas skolotājiem Latvijā un atklāt Latvijas Angļu valodas skolotāju asociācijas (LAVSA) ieguldījumiem tajā. Šīs grāmatas autors uzskata, ka profesionālā attīstība ir svarīga veiksmīgam izglītības procesam, turklāt, teorija apstiprina, ka pedagogu profesionālā pilnveidošanās uzlabo skolēnu mācīšanās procesu un sasniegumus. Izvēlētā pētījuma metode bija anketa. Datu vākšanas metodes bija intervija ar Latvijas Angļu valodas skolotāju asociācijas prezidenti un anketa Latvijā strādājošajiem Angļu valodas skolotājiem par profesionālās pilnveides iespējām un kvalitāti Latvijā un Latvijas Angļu valodas skolotāju asociācijas ieguldījumu…
Percepción de una comunidad educativa sobre el desarrollo profesional docente en la educación 2.0
2019
This article reflects on teachers’ professional development in an increasingly technological and informational society. We underline the need for digital literacy in the context of education 2.0 and highlight the challenges that teachers face in transforming new information and communication technologies (NICTs) into learning and knowledge technologies (LKTs) to enhance their professional development. This research has been conducted in a grouped rural school, constituted as a learning community (CA). It consists of two centers whose main difference rests on their use of NICTs: either advanced or preliminary. We have applied the communicative-critical methodology, starting with a case study…
THEORIZING THE CONCEPT OF TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING EXPERIENCE IN THE CONTEXT OF TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2019
The concept of learning experience holds its eminent place within the paradigm of constructivism in contemporary educational science. The study process is being designed and construed to foster educative experiences in accordance with the desired learning outcomes. Transformative learning theory and the concept of perspective transformation marks a specific type of learning experience – one that reconstructs the frame of reference of the learner. Such a paradigmatic shift is also considered necessary for large-scale educational reforms to succeed. Transformative learning theory itself doesn’t provide clear-cut solutions for implementation of a certain reform ideology, to the contrary – it q…
Stories of professional development in physiotherapy education
2021
This study examines graduating physiotherapy students' narratives related to their professional development. The data comprised interviews with 33 graduating physiotherapy students. The data were analyzed using the narrative analysis approach. As a result, five different story models were identified. The descriptive story models were named: 1) "Study path dominated by life changes"; 2) "Realizing the connection between physiotherapy theory and practice"; 3) "Self-regulated and practical-oriented learning path"; 4) "Becoming a critical developer"; and 5) "Multiprofessional working towards expertise". In students' stories, there appeared different turning points that illustrated especially me…