A few weeks ago, the Executive of the Critical Physiotherapy Network discussed the Terms and Conditions we wanted to place around membership access to our shiny new website. We wanted to establish and encourage some standards of behaviour, because one of our cardinal principles is that people should feel safe within this site to express their ideas, however controversial, critical or radical. At the same time, we wanted to stand up for some particular virtues: inclusive language; participatory dialogue; and fearless minoritarianism. Striking the right balance in defining 'light touch' regulations is surprisingly difficult, but only really if you are bound by conventional beliefs about … [Read more...] about New: Sharing
New: Assessment
For this post, we're linking up with Michael Rowe in South Africa and his excellent site /usr/space. Michael is a physiotherapist and educator in South Africa, with a passion for teaching and learning. He is an active member of the Critical Physiotherapy Network and a regular blogger on health care education, pedagogy and technology-informed learning. Earlier this week, Michael posted a blog exploring the possibilities of assessing teams, not individuals. Assessing teams instead of individuals Patient outcomes are almost always influenced by how well the team works together, yet all of the disciplines conduct assessments of individual students. Yes, we might ask students who … [Read more...] about New: Assessment
New: Methods
Consider this list: Participatory action research Ethnography Case study Narrative ethnography Discourse analysis Grounded theory Visual methods Feminist Critical humanism Photo-voice Queer theory Mixed method Performance ethnography Constructivist Critical arts-based inquiry Oral history Online ethnography Conversation analysis Memory work Interpretive phenomenology Autoethnography Q methodology Ethnomethodology Historiographic Institutional ethnography... This list is just a sample of some of the different approaches to data collection, text generation and analysis that are part of the growth of qualitative, and theoretically and … [Read more...] about New: Methods