scholarly journals Problems of Practice As Stance

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Edmund 'Ted' Hamann ◽  
Guy Trainin
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Leadership ◽  
Educational Change ◽  
Curriculum And Instruction ◽  
Program Design ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Education Doctorate ◽  
Policy Practice ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Problems Of Practice ◽  
The Voice

This piece describes a steadily changing, teacher leadership-oriented, CPED-affiliated, education doctorate (EdD) program that is housed in a department of curriculum and instruction. It situates the program design in relation to four key concepts—epistemology, praxis, efficacy, and iterative processes—while highlighting CPED’s core stance that the voice of the professional practitioner needs to be inserted into discussion of educational change, not as the target of policy, nor the object of research, but rather as a coequal partner in a research/policy/ practice triad in which practitioner insights related to context are key for the viability of educational efforts.

The Voice of Women Scientists in EU Research Policy (abstract)

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalia Šatkovskienė ◽  
Beverly Karplus Hartline ◽  
Renee K. Horton ◽  
Catherine M. Kaicher
Keyword(s):  
Research Policy ◽  
Women Scientists ◽  
The Voice

Family-Focused Services for TANF Participants Facing Acute Barriers to Work: Pathways to Implementation

2018 ◽  
Vol 99 (3) ◽  
pp. 219-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Stanczyk ◽  
Sarah Carnochan ◽  
Evelyn Hengeveld-Bidmon ◽  
Michael J. Austin
Keyword(s):  
Program Design ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Community Context ◽  
Structure Alignment ◽  
Welfare To Work ◽  
Human Service Agencies ◽  
Service Agencies ◽  
Temporary Assistance

In 2014, California implemented the Family Stabilization (FS) program within its Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs). FS fills two key service gaps in TANF that have been identified in the literature—namely, addressing participant barriers to work and supporting child well-being. Research on programs addressing these gaps in TANF remains limited. This qualitative policy implementation study describes FS program design and implementation in 11 California county human service agencies and explores links to agency and community context. We find that state-encouraged flexibility resulted in three distinct approaches to FS services, staffing, and structure. Alignment between agency context and program design emerged as central to implementation decisions. These findings yield implications for research, policy, and management practice among welfare-to-work administrators.

Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 113-122
Author(s):  
Harris Beider ◽  
Kusminder Chahal
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Coalition Building ◽  
Political Organizations ◽  
Detailed Understanding ◽  
Policy Practice ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Politics And Culture ◽  
White Working Class

This concluding chapter addresses the issues of defining white working-class communities; the challenges of choosing a president; the importance of qualitative data and lived experiences in revealing a granular and detailed understanding of macro-changes in society; and the prospects of cross-racial coalition building. Looking ahead to the 2020 presidential elections and beyond, the chapter questions whether policymakers and researchers will learn from the messages of this research and others about the lived experiences of white working-class communities and their own sense of being left behind. The chapter then argues for a radical overhaul of the way in which white working-class communities are discussed, engaged with, and represented by policymakers and political organizations. Returning to the context of rising populism across the globe, white working-class communities cannot simply be ignored. Rather the white working class should be considered to be as diverse as any other group, an important legacy population, and a community that has a range of views shaped by location, politics, and culture. This opens up the prospect of exciting possibilities for research, policy, practice, and coalition building.

scholarly journals Closing the Gap: Research, Policy, Practice, and Shared Parenting

2014 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 152-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marsha Kline Pruett ◽  
J. Herbie DiFonzo
Keyword(s):  
Research Policy ◽  
Policy Practice ◽  
Shared Parenting ◽  
Closing The Gap

scholarly journals Occupational therapy: The key to unlocking locked-up occupations during the COVID-19 pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sureshkumar Kamalakannan ◽  
Stuti Chakraborty
Keyword(s):  
Research Policy ◽  
Occupational Therapists ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Therapeutic Interventions ◽  
Innovative Strategies ◽  
Policy Practice ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Pragmatic Strategies ◽  
Global Population

Occupations refer to the everyday activities that people do as individuals, in families and with communities to occupy time and bring meaning and purpose to life. It is not always limited to just paid employment. Occupations of the global population have been adversely affected in one way or the other because of this COVID-19 pandemic. Four different key sects of occupations were majorly affected. These are the occupations of those who are or were COVID-positive, occupations of healthy individuals affected by COVID-19/lockdown, occupations of the population highly susceptible and vulnerable of contracting COVID-19 and occupations having a direct impact on global market, supply chain or economy. These occupations were locked up due to the pandemic lockdown. Occupational therapists can scientifically analyse occupations and help formulate exit strategies for the lockdown. They are experts who understand and study the different ways of measuring participation in occupation to develop innovative strategies and therapeutic interventions to facilitate individuals’ engagement in occupations. They can unravel the pragmatic strategies for preventing transmission (physical distancing, hand hygiene, personal protective equipment usage and decontamination) despite engaging in occupations safely and effectively. Nourishing this niche and essential science is pertinent, not just in this pandemic context but also against a backdrop of health and social care research, policy, practice and education for the future.

scholarly journals Problems of Practice: A Document Analysis of Education Doctorate Dissertations

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
John C. Gillham ◽  
Nicole V. Williams ◽  
Gwynne Rife ◽  
Kara K. Parker
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Professional Roles ◽  
Education Doctorate ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Potential Impact ◽  
Perceived Impact ◽  
Problems Of Practice

The purpose of this study was to learn how education doctorate students create the problems of practice researched in their dissertations, and the potential impact of their research on their local contexts to enhance the generation of knowledge.  Three research questions guided this study: 1) How do education doctorate students derive their problems of practice?, 2) What is the nature of the problems of practice that the students have studied?, and 3) What are the reported impacts the study of problems of practice has on doctoral students’ local contexts?  To answer these questions, the researchers conducted a document analysis of 19 dissertations.  Student dissertations included a diverse set of problems of practice largely determined by their professional roles.  The findings indicate a need for further refinement of the concept of a problem of practice and how the education doctorate program and their candidates employ the concept of a problem of practice in their dissertations and how this impacts local contexts. Furthermore, the nature of their problems of practice researched through the dissertation contributed to the perceived impact on the local context of the author.

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