Practice and Service Learning in Occupational Therapy: Enhancing Potential in Context - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470019697 ISBN 13: 9780470019696

Publisher: Wiley, 2006

Synopsis

While this book is based primarily on experiences of occupational therapy practice education in South Africa, it aims to have international appeal as key principles of practice and service learning are drawn from the differing scenarios covered.  Based on qualitative research, some of the book’s chapters describe issues faced by students in complex practice situations and highlight educational strategies for promoting socially responsive professional development.  They show how students engage with the personal and professional challenges of working in a multicultural society and how situated learning can enhance their resourcefulness in meeting the needs of individuals, groups and communities.

The book is divided into three sections: The first, on the practice education agenda, establishes the academic rationale for various forms of practice learning within an occupational therapy curriculum.  The second section examines the learning opportunities offered by different practice contexts and highlights mechanisms for developing the professional identity of students.  The final section, on enhancing potential, reviews mechanisms that may be used for supporting students in the field, and ends with a look at the future of practice education and how it might develop in response to social and international drivers. 

About this title

About the Author

Edited by Auldeen Alsop, Principal Lecturer and Discipline Leader for Occupational Therapy, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK

Theresa Lorenzo, Lecturer and fieldwork co-ordinator, Division of Occupational Therapy, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Madeleine Duncan, Senior Lecturer/Chief Occupational Therapist, Division of Occupational Therapy, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Helen Buchanan, Lecturer, Division of Occupational Therapy, University of Cape Town, South Africa.

From the Back Cover

Practice and Service Learning in Occupational Therapy: Enhancing Potential in Context is an exciting new book with international appeal. It explores service learning as a feature of practice education for occupational therapy students. Based on qualitative research, some of the book’s chapters describe issues faced by students in complex practice situations and highlight educational strategies for promoting socially responsive professional development.

This engaging book includes coverage of:

• The practice education agenda, establishes the academic rationale for various forms of practice learning within an occupational therapy curriculum.
• The learning opportunities offered by different practice contexts and the different mechanisms for developing the professional identity of students.
• A review of the mechanisms that may be used for supporting students in the field and a look at the future of practice education and how it might develop in response to local and international drivers.

Practice and Service Learning in Occupational Therapy: Enhancing Potential in Context addresses the challenges associated with placing students in often quite vulnerable situations for the purpose of both learning and making a contribution to the community.

Occupational therapy practice educators and supervisors, occupational therapy students, students and lecturers of other health and social care, social development professions such as nurses, social workers, public health practitioners, urban planners and teachers would benefit from this book.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470019697
• ISBN 13: 9780470019696
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 306
• Editor: Lorenzo Theresa, Duncan Madeleine, Buchanan Helen, Alsop Auldeen