975 research outputs found
sj-docx-1-pcr-10.1177_26323524211058895 – Supplemental material for How can social workers be meaningfully involved in palliative care? A scoping review on the prerequisites and how they can be realised in practice
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-pcr-10.1177_26323524211058895 for How can social workers be meaningfully involved in palliative care? A scoping review on the prerequisites and how they can be realised in practice by Brent Taels, Kirsten Hermans, Chantal Van Audenhove, Nadine Boesten, Joachim Cohen, Koen Hermans and Anja Declercq in Palliative Care and Social Practice</p
sj-docx-2-pcr-10.1177_26323524211058895 – Supplemental material for How can social workers be meaningfully involved in palliative care? A scoping review on the prerequisites and how they can be realised in practice
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-2-pcr-10.1177_26323524211058895 for How can social workers be meaningfully involved in palliative care? A scoping review on the prerequisites and how they can be realised in practice by Brent Taels, Kirsten Hermans, Chantal Van Audenhove, Nadine Boesten, Joachim Cohen, Koen Hermans and Anja Declercq in Palliative Care and Social Practice</p
Developing an ecological sensitivity in searching for evidence about professionals' agency in educational practices. Reflections from a case study
No full textThis contribution proposes a reflection upon the development of ecological sensitivity in inquiring the educators' agency in two Municipality-led after-school programmes in NE Italy. Ecological sensitivity is a researcher's disposition to maintain an encompassing perspective during the fieldwork, in order to highlight the 'gravitational world' [1] that impacts over the educators' agency in their daily practice. As a consequence, ecological sensitivity is the researcher's constant attitude of critical inspection on the relevance of context in analysing human activity. In developing an ecological sensitivity during the fieldwork, the researcher keeps an enlarged focus of observation to connect the educators’ agency to their past experience and motives in practice, the complex texture of the situation at hand, the tools and the events in the setting.
In this proposal, I discuss the recognition of the gravitational forces that affect the educators' agency in a case study research, by focussing on two interactional situations emerging in the context of a Municipality-led "Schooling Integrative Support", which are specifically designed services to support the children’s homework duties. I select situations as the relevant units of analysis to support ecological sensitivity because they contain all the characterising elements of a given activity and the specific contingencies in which the educators' agency unfolds. Situations are interactions that are nested within institutional activities and are based on children’s emergent interests and improvisations. The educators interpret the ongoing situation and intentionally act in order to achieve educational objectives by recognising constraints and resources in the setting, through the use of specific repertoires of practice.
In the two different situations presented in this contribution, the different paths of the educators’ agency are analysed in terms of their relations with the repertoires of practice, the nature of the school tasks and the educators’ positionality in relation to their institutional mandate, as well as to the schoolteachers.
The development of an ecological sensitivity in the case study research can improve the analysis of professional agency by highlighting:
- the different paths that professional agency can follow in a single institutional practice;
- the complex and conflicting relationships among different educational practices and the overwhelming role of schooling in other activities;
- the potential directions for participatory action research, based upon ecologically valid evidence of the practitioners’ professional experience
Observación participante en salas de asistencia para personas con enfermedades psiquicas: los problemas en torno a la confianza/desconfianza y el involucramiento emocional
No full textAnja Declerc beschreibt in ihrem Beitrag die Schwierigkeiten und Fallstricke, die mit einer Offenen Teilnehmenden Beobachtung auf Pflegestationen für psychisch kranke Menschen verbunden waren. Im Rahmen dieser Studie, die einen Vergleich der Organisation der Pflege in stationären Einrichtungen zum Ziel hatte, begleitete sie jeweils für mehrere Monate die Arbeit in vier verschiedenen Stationen. Dabei stellte sich heraus, daß das 'getting into' sich weitaus einfacher gestaltete als das 'getting along': Für das Pflegepersonal gab es zunächst wenig Gründe, einer "herumschnüffelnden" Soziologin Vertrauen zu schenken, bis sie im Laufe der Zeit glaubhaft machen konnte, daß sie nicht im Auftrag bzw. als "Spionin" der Stationsleitung agierte. Die Daten, die in diesem Forschungsprozeß gesammelt wurden, versteht und reflektiert die Autorin als kontextuelle Hervorbringungen, die sowohl durch die Wahrnehmung der Person der Forscherin durch andere als auch durch deren Miterleben des psychischen Leidens auf den Stationen beeinflußt sind.
URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0001254This contribution describes the problems and pitfalls associated with the use of (participant) observation in nursing home wards for people suffering from dementia. The research concentrated on how different nursing homes develop their care for inhabitants suffering from dementia. In order to study this, I was a known observer in four wards, each time for several months. "Getting in" to the wards did not prove to be very problematic, but "getting along" was a lot harder. There was no reason for staff to trust a snooping sociologist until I was able to convince them I was not a spy for management. It was quite clear that the information I received was influenced by the way I was perceived. Moreover, the dementia the inhabitants of the wards suffer from and their reaction to it did not leave me indifferent. This also could influence the data gathering process.
URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0001254URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs000125
Participant Observation in Nursing Home Wards for People Suffering from Dementia: The Problems of Trust and Emotional Involvement
No full textAnja Declerc beschreibt in ihrem Beitrag die Schwierigkeiten und Fallstricke, die mit einer Offenen Teilnehmenden Beobachtung auf Pflegestationen für psychisch kranke Menschen verbunden waren. Im Rahmen dieser Studie, die einen Vergleich der Organisation der Pflege in stationären Einrichtungen zum Ziel hatte, begleitete sie jeweils für mehrere Monate die Arbeit in vier verschiedenen Stationen. Dabei stellte sich heraus, daß das 'getting into' sich weitaus einfacher gestaltete als das 'getting along': Für das Pflegepersonal gab es zunächst wenig Gründe, einer "herumschnüffelnden" Soziologin Vertrauen zu schenken, bis sie im Laufe der Zeit glaubhaft machen konnte, daß sie nicht im Auftrag bzw. als "Spionin" der Stationsleitung agierte. Die Daten, die in diesem Forschungsprozeß gesammelt wurden, versteht und reflektiert die Autorin als kontextuelle Hervorbringungen, die sowohl durch die Wahrnehmung der Person der Forscherin durch andere als auch durch deren Miterleben des psychischen Leidens auf den Stationen beeinflußt sind.This contribution describes the problems and pitfalls associated with the use of (participant) observation in nursing home wards for people suffering from dementia. The research concentrated on how different nursing homes develop their care for inhabitants suffering from dementia. In order to study this, I was a known observer in four wards, each time for several months. "Getting in" to the wards did not prove to be very problematic, but "getting along" was a lot harder. There was no reason for staff to trust a snooping sociologist until I was able to convince them I was not a spy for management. It was quite clear that the information I received was influenced by the way I was perceived. Moreover, the dementia the inhabitants of the wards suffer from and their reaction to it did not leave me indifferent. This also could influence the data gathering process
Updating ‘Perceptions and opinions on the COVID-19 pandemic in Flanders, Belgium’ with data of two additional waves of a longitudinal study
No full textAdding to longitudinal data of three waves that were presented in an original dataset on perceptions and behaviours regarding government measures, fear of getting ill, and media use during the COVID-19 pandemic in Flanders (Belgium), this article presents information on two additional waves that were collected at two key moments in the pandemic in the same region: in late August 2020 (W4; as infection rates increased again; N = 505) and in the middle of March 2021, exactly one year after the first data collection (W5; N = 408). In W4 and W5, new respondents were added to the longitudinal sample to strengthen cross-sectional analyses. Additional information on informal care and physical activity was also collected. These data may be of interest to researchers who wish to explore dynamics of fear and attitudes towards public health measures during this particularly challenging time.status: Publishe
Institutionalizing ASEAN: celebrating Europe through network governance
No full textThis article provides a new piece for two of the puzzles of institutionalized cooperation in Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). First, with regard to the organization's four decades of existence, there has always been a marked gap between ASEAN's rhetorical goals of cooperation and its actual achievements. What explains these systematic failures of implementation? Second, from the outset, ASEAN was criticized for its light institutionalization, which failed to deliver the substantial cooperation goals. Despite selected institutional reforms, ASEAN's autonomy has not increased remarkably and it has not made any major institutional innovations. Why does ASEAN design institutions it does not use? Why does this transformation gap occur? The author suggests a sociological institutional explanation and argues that major impulses for cooperation have come from outside Southeast Asia, most importantly from Europe. By mimicking the European integration process, ASEAN member states have effectively created an isomorphic organization. The Association's institutional development reflects a concern for international legitimacy and less an objective functional demand arising from the specific interactions of member states. This copying process has led to network governance within the organization
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