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Making connections across boundaries: interprofessional learning and communities of practice
No full textAim: this paper applies Wenger’s (1998) theory of Communities of Practice (CoP) to Interprofessional Learning (IPL). Using findings from a study to evaluate the pedagogy of one Interprofessional Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programme for health, education and social care professionals, we illustrate how IPL can work at the boundaries of a number of distinct agencies to forge links and enhance understanding between them.Background: CoPs are characterised by ‘mutual engagement’, ‘mutual relationships’, a ‘negotiated enterprise’, ‘shared repertoire’ and boundaries with the rest of the world. Connections can be made between CoPs through the use of ‘boundary encounters’, ‘boundary objects’ and ‘brokering’ (Wenger, 1998). These concepts are significant to IPL and have ramifications for pedagogical design.Methods: 33 semi-structured interviews were conducted with CPD participants and their line managers. Results: the CPD provided a forum for boundary encounters between a range of multi-agency professionals. The use of a neutral environment, away from work pressures, was appreciated and encouraged participants to share, question and challenge each other. The pedagogy made extensive use of boundary objects around which discussions could be focused, for example joint presentations. Participants appreciated these as a mechanism through which to engage with interagency colleagues and to step outside professional silos. Brokering was carried out by the course facilitator, who encouraged debate, ensured group focus and responded to requests for additional information. CPD participants were impressed with the informal and responsive style of facilitation. Our findings reinforced the central role of facilitation in IPL, identified by Oandasan and Reeves (2005).Conclusions: this paper applies a theoretical perspective to the evaluation of IPL, which has increasingly been called for in recent years. Wenger’s framework highlights issues of central relevance to IPL and has assisted us in producing a ‘systematic, disciplined and critical’ analysis. (Barr et al., 2005).<br/
From interprofessional education to integrated working: enabling middle managers to develop integrated practice within children's services
No full textThe paper describes the impact of a continuing professional development programme (CPD) on the development of interprofessional practice within a Children and Young People Trust (CYPT) in the South of England. The programme intended to facilitate integrated services for children, young people and their families by bringing together middle managers from 15 health, social care and education services/agencies. The programme was collaboratively designed with the CYPT to address some of the underlying challenges of integrated working, such as lack of understanding each other’s roles, sharing a common language, and working across agency boundaries (e.g. Sloper 2004). The programme allowed participants to explore each other’s value base, identify challenges to taking forward integrated working, and, most importantly, to develop action plans on an issue that would support the integration of services and better multi-agency working. This paper will present the work of one of four cohorts who participated in the CPD. The cohort identified the need for better and more appropriate induction across the CYPT. All of the managers felt able to influence this area of integrated practice and thus decided to develop an action plan for the development of a multi-agency induction day. The paper will briefly outline some of the pedagogical and curriculum design features of the CPD. Subsequently the paper will reflect on the process of implementing the induction day; maintaining the momentum and taking forward the agreed action plan was not part of the CPD and thus some interesting reflections have emerged commenting on the barriers and opportunities of transferring IPE into effective interprofessional/integrated practice. Data from an extensive pedagogical evaluation will be used to substantiate the reflections and comment on some of the pedagogical features that enabled the transfer of IPE into effective (integrated) practic
Lees, A, N43575
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/398961Surname: LEES. Given Name(s) or Initials: A. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: N43575. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 45330.216357
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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
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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