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Achieving teacher agency for inclusive education: an exploration of general education teachers’ perspective.
No full textThis work outlines a practitioner-oriented theorisation of teacher agency concerning inclusive education. Exploring teacher agency is relevant for general and SEN teachers and governmental and educational agencies offering initial training and professional development opportunities for teachers. This qualitative study sheds light on teacher agency, which is seen as a change-making process concerning inclusive practices in school contexts. Participants were 124 Italian general education teachers who responded to an open-ended survey question. Framework analysis allowed for the identification of four interrelated categories: enabling conditions, strategies, outcomes and outcome directions. Indeed, by leveraging specific strategies and enabling conditions, teachers produce educational, relational, and context-related outcomes, impacting different stakeholders. The results provide insights into how teacher agency unfolds in inclusive school settings and offer practitioners a set of core strategies and enabling factors to draw upon to produce positive transformations. Implications for research, policy, and practice are also discussed.
KEYWORDS: Teacher agency, inclusive education, general education teachers, survey, framework analysi
Mappatura delle tecnologie inclusive utilizzate nella scuola secondaria di primo e secondo grado a favore di studentesse e studenti con disabilità: focus su strumenti tecnologici e sviluppo delle competenze.
Full text linkIl presente articolo intende proporre un focus di approfondimento sugli strumenti tecnologici, utilizzati dagli insegnanti nel contesto della scuola secondaria di primo e secondo grado, per promuovere l'inclusione delle/degli studentesse/studenti con disabilità e per sostenere lo sviluppo di nuove competenze. Partendo dai risultati emersi da una recente Systematic Scoping Review sull’uso delle tecnologie per l’inclusione, il presente contributo, oltre a illustrare la metodologia seguita nell’analisi della letteratura e i risultati raggiunti, offre al lettore un approfondimento su un particolare aspetto della ricerca, consistente nell’evidenziare il ruolo svolto dalle tecnologie nel favorire processi inclusivi e di apprendimento delle competenze
Opening the horizons of clinical reasoning to qualitative research
No full textClinical Reasoning (CR) is an important aspect of health professional education and effective practice. It is a complex series of factors and cognitive functions, involving higher-level thinking to define problems, examine the evidence and then making decisions and choices to improve the patient's physiological and psycho-social state.CR consists of 3 interconnected and interdependent sub-processes: clinical experience and clinical context and Evidence-Based Practice. This essay focuses on the opportunities that Qualitative Research offers during the CR process when the doctor finds the evidence to address a patient's health problem. Clinicians are often faced with questions that randomized clinical trials or systematic reviews of efficacy studies cannot answer. For this reason, we considered it necessary to offer an expanded view of the process of interpretation of the scientific literature used in daily clinical practice through the complex process of Clinical Reasoning, through the use of studies conducted with qualitative methods, which are able to respond to a different range of clinical questions, and to support studies based on the effectiveness of treatments
2019 Congress Poster Abstracts
No full textEach abstract has been indexed according to the first author. Abstracts appear as they were submitted and have not undergone editing or the Oncology Nursing Forum's review process. Only abstracts that will be presented appear here. Poster numbers are subject to change. For updated poster numbers, visit congress.ons.org or check the Congress guide. Data published in abstracts presented at the ONS 44th Annual Congress are embargoed until the conclusion of the presentation. Coverage and/or distribution of an abstract, poster, or any of its supplemental material to or by the news media, any commercial entity, or individuals, including the authors of said abstract, is strictly prohibited until the embargo is lifted. Promotion of general topics and speakers is encouraged within these guidelines
CN60The experience of dysgeusia in allogenic hematopoietic cell transplantation survivors: A qualitative study
Full text linkBackground: Taste disorders are one of the most common side effects of treatment in oncology patients and often occur after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (allo-HCT). Dysgeusia is rarely a life-threatening complication, therefore, in many cases it does not receive close medical attention. Furthermore, information about this disorder is largely based on the clinician’s own experience. However, taste disorders, can impact on the quality of life in survivors of allo-HCT, and compromise their enjoyment of eating, food intake, weight and nutritional status. The number of performed annual transplantations continues to grow annually and the number of older long-term survivors increases. There is little literature that is focused on studies of survivors of allo-HCT with taste disorders. We conducted a qualitative descriptive study to explore experiences of dysgeusia in patients that have undergone of allo-HCT and examined what strategies they used to mitigate it. Methods: Using purposive sampling, survivors of allo-HCT were recruited. Audiotape interviews were conducted until data saturation was achieved. Each interview was transcribed verbatim, and content analyses were performed to extract significant themes and subthemes. Results: Three major themes embracing various aspects of allo-HCT survivors’ experiences were identified: 1) the shape of taste; 2) everything is irritating and it is arduous to eat; 3) finding new strategies to overcome the problems. Together, they highlight the experiences of survivors showing how taste disorders can affect the physical, psychological and social dimensions of a person for the rest of their life. Conclusions: A cumulative burden is the result of dysgeusia and its clinical course reinforced also by related symptoms. Healthcare professionals must focus their attention on the management of these symptoms and offer interventions to safeguard the patient’s social, physical and psychological well-being. Finally, further research is needed to explore the experiences of allo-HTC patients who have taste disorders throughout their cancer journey that introduces a more holistic approach which involves health professionals, caregivers and family members
CN30Laryngectomized patients caregivers’ life experience: A phenomenological study
Full text linkBackground: Laryngectomized patients often depend on their caregivers who have a central and difficult role in supporting them dealing with financial, social, and relational issues. In fact, they feel very responsible and committed, especially considering the time devoted to take care of their beloved. Besides, providing care induces caregivers high stress levels, emotional distress, anxiety and the fear of cancer recurrence or progress. Few studies investigated laryngectomized patients caregivers’ life experience during both the whole course of illness and at the end of the treatment. Therefore, the purpose of our study was to explore, through a phenomenological approach, the lived-experience of primary family caregivers of laryngectomized patients undergoing radical surgery. Methods: Qualitative semi-structured and audiotaped interviews were held with 12 laryngectomized patients’ primary family caregivers. Data were analysed using the descriptive phenomenological approach outlined by Colaizzi. Results: Three key themes emerged: the caregivers lived experience of illness; the change of caregivers’ daily life and how they support their sick beloved. The experience of caregivers’ lived relations changes from being a family member to a supportive carer, and the illness of their beloved negatively affects their psychological lived experience. Their perception of time and Quality of Life change as their perception of the future becomes uncertain. Finally, they feel guilty mainly because of the limited amount of time they can devote to their beloved. Conclusions: The study findings allowed to understand in depth how the presence of a laryngectomized person in the family may affect the life of the caregiver, even after the treatment phase. This suggests the need for healthcare professionals to support caregivers throughout the whole care journey and especially in dealing with the perception of time during the diagnosis and care phases. Further research should be conducted on factors contributing to time perception alteration and possible interventions to support caregivers to cope with it
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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