The Practice-Based Educator: A Reflective Tool for CPD and Accreditation - Softcover

Cross, Vinette; Caladine, Lynne; Morris, Jane; Hilton, Ros; Bristow, Helen; Moore, Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1861564228 ISBN 13: 9781861564221

Publisher: Wiley, 2006

Synopsis

Designed for all those involved in education within the practice-based setting, this book encourages the reader to become involved in their own personal development as a practice-based educator through reflection on their own practice. The reader is encouraged to generate and organise evidence of their own Continuing Professional Development (CPD) through practice-based learning and teaching activities.

The text is user-friendly and includes sections on the context of practice-based education, the role of the practice-based educator, facilitating learning in a practice-based setting, and assessing and evaluating practice-based learning.

• The authors are all educators of experience who have for many years been involved in practice-based education
• Fully updated to cover current trends such as the move to community-based practice and inter-professional practice
• Practical features include activities, reflective assignments and literature references

About this title

From the Back Cover

Development of high quality health professionals depends upon high quality learning experiences in the practice environment.  This is acknowledged by increased emphasis on quality assurance in practice-based professional education, and in calls for accreditation of practice-based educators. Inevitably this has major benefits for patient/client populations utilising healthcare services.

The Practice-Based Educator – A reflective tool for CPD and accreditation builds on an earlier book, The Clinical Educator - Role Development by Ann Moore, Ros Hilton, Jane Morris, Lynne Caladine and Helen Bristow.  Published in 1997, it proved to be a valuable resource for practice-based educators in the Allied Health Professions. 

This new book updates the background and context of practice-based education.  It includes an extensive section on techniques and methods as well as a troubleshooting section.  This uses vignettes to explore some reasons why things might go wrong in practice-based learning interactions, and  sugests ideas for dealing with problems such as:

• learner alienation in the practice-based learning environment
• match and mismatch between learner stage of development and educator approach
• fear and failure in the practice-based learning enviroment
• the ‘blocked learning cycle’

At the end of each chapter, proformas linked to specific learning outcomes are provided. These draw on readers’ application of reflective activities in the chapter to their own practice as educators and learners. Learning in each chapter can be linked to a set of generic outcomes for accreditation.   In this way readers can build a portfolio of evidence to use in any subsequent application for formal accreditation.

This practical text will provide an easily accessible resource for health professionals involved in practice-based education at a variety of levels.

About the Author

Ann P Moore, University of Brighton, UK,

Lynne Caladine, Clinical Research Centre, UK,

Jane Morris, Clinical Research Centre, UK,

Ros Hilton, King's College, UK,

Vinette Cross, University of Birmingham, UK and

Helen Bristow

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1861564228
• ISBN 13: 9781861564221
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 268