Elevating student understanding: Irish occupational therapy students’ experience of a service learning project

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dc.contributor.authorMcCarthy, Karen
dc.contributor.authorMcCarthy, Marian
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-19T05:25:51Z
dc.date.available2019-11-19T05:25:51Z
dc.date.issued2019-06-02
dc.description.abstractService learning is a pedagogy that embraces learning in action and addresses community needs. Since the adoption of the Occupational Therapy Competencies in 2008 and the launch of national occupational therapist registration in Ireland in 2015, there has been limited research on the effectiveness of service learning pedagogies in Irish higher education for meeting core competencies. The majority of research focusing on evaluating service learning have been North American studies which brings to question the relevance of these service learning outcomes beyond North America and specifically Ireland. This qualitative study examined 11 occupational therapy students’ journal reflections, portfolio entries, and focus group discussions to illuminate their experience of participating in a peer coaching program called Elevate at a major Irish university. Results indicated the experience of working with a “buddy” allowed them to apply skills learned in the classroom to the “real world”, navigate between personal and professional boundaries, and struggle with “taking a step back” to empower the client. Students reported the experience helped them to prepare for future practice and increased their confidence going into clinical placement. Professional programs might consider service learning as a signature pedagogy, providing scaffolding between in-class activities and clinical placements and elevating student levels of understanding.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationMcCarthy, K. and McCarthy, M. (2019) Elevating Student Understanding: Irish Occupational Therapy Students’ Experience of a Service Learning Project. Journal of Occupational Therapy Education, 3(3), 3. (26 pp.) doi: 10.26681/jote.2019.030303en
dc.identifier.doi10.26681/jote.2019.030303en
dc.identifier.eissn2573-1378
dc.identifier.endpage26en
dc.identifier.issued3en
dc.identifier.journaltitleJournal of Occupational Therapy Educationen
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/9027
dc.identifier.volume3en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherEastern Kentucky Universityen
dc.relation.urihttps://encompass.eku.edu/jote/vol3/iss3/3/
dc.rights© The Author(s) 2019. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.subjectExperiential learningen
dc.subjectAction researchen
dc.subjectQualitativeen
dc.subjectOccupational therapyen
dc.titleElevating student understanding: Irish occupational therapy students’ experience of a service learning projecten
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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