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Transforming education and professional practice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In this chapter, we return to the notion of exploring education and professional practices, the key focus of this volume. In the opening chapter, we argued that the theory of practice architectures is simultaneously a theoretical, an analytical, and a ...
Mahon, Kathleen,   +8 more
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Professional development and sustained change in teachers’ practice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This study explores the impact of professional development on the pedagogical practice of teachers. Educator Thomas Guskey (1985) developed a model of staff development that identified four key stages that needed to occur if professional development was ...
Herbert, Paul A.
core   +1 more source

The impact of pay-for-performance on professional boundaries in UK general practice: an ethnographic study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The 2004 new General Medical Services (nGMS) contract exemplifies trends across the public services towards increased definition, measurement and regulation of professional work, with general practice income now largely dependent on the quality of care ...
Grant, S   +22 more
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Learning in the Circumstances of Professional Practice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This chapter discusses what constitutes learning in the circumstances of professional practice. It progresses from the perspective that examining learning in and through work supports opportunity to make visible and interrogate the complex array of ...
Billett, Stephen   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Introduction: Practice theory and the theory of practice architectures [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This chapter introduces the theory of practice architectures and locates it within the theoretical terrain of practice theory. It highlights what is distinctive about the theory as a practice theory, and discusses its affordances as a theoretical ...
Susanne Francisco   +12 more
core   +1 more source

From Precarious Work to Precarious Social Citizenship: Polish Workers’ Experiences with the Identification Number System in Norway

open access: yesCentral and Eastern European Migration Review, 2023
In recent years, there has been growing interest in the proliferation, rescaling and internalisation of borders. EU citizens who come to work in Norway are registered either with a Fødselsnummer – an identification number designating them as residents of
Mateus Schweyher
doaj   +1 more source

Using deliberate practice framework to assess the quality of feedback in undergraduate clinical skills training

open access: yesBMC Medical Education, 2019
Background In this research paper we report on the quality of feedback provided in the logbooks of pre-clinical undergraduate students based on a model of ‘actionable feedback’.
Reina M. Abraham, Veena S. Singaram
doaj   +1 more source

Integrating patient- and caregiver-reported outcome measures into the daily care routines of specialised outpatient palliative care: a qualitative study (ELSAH) on feasibility, acceptability and appropriateness

open access: yesBMC Palliative Care, 2022
Background The use of patient-reported outcome measures (PROM) and caregiver-reported outcome measures can raise the patient centeredness of treatment and improve the quality of palliative care. Nevertheless, the everyday implementation of self-report in
Hannah Seipp   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Moving out to live independently? Experiences from young women with intellectual disabilities in Norway

open access: yesNordic Social Work Research
This article explores the process of four women in Norway moving into their own apartment, emphasizing how they experienced the process in relation to self-determination and living independently.
Anne Linn Midttun   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Low agreement among patients and clinicians about urgency and safety to wait for assessment in primary care after hours medical care: results of cross-sectional matched surveys

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2023
Background Discordance between patient and clinician perceived urgency may drive “inappropriate” presentations to after-hours medical services. This paper investigates the level of agreement between patient and clinicians’ perceptions of urgency and ...
Katelyn Barnes   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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