Aldrich Rebecca M, Peters Liesl
Rebecca M. Aldrich, PhD, OTR/L, is Associate Professor of Clinical Occupational Therapy, Mrs. T. H. Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles;
Liesl Peters, MSc(OT), is Senior Lecturer, Division of Occupational Therapy, Department of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Am J Occup Ther. 2019 May/Jun;73(3):7303205100p1-7303205100p10. doi: 10.5014/ajot.2019.029744.
When designing international educational collaborations, occupational science and occupational therapy educators must consider how occupational justice can be a linchpin for students' learning. This article describes an international collaboration involving 52 undergraduate occupational science students in the United States and 41 undergraduate occupational therapy students in South Africa. The students participated in six synchronous video conferences in 2016, during which they gave group presentations about four occupational science constructs and engaged in general question-and-answer sessions. Forty percent of the students provided feedback about the interactions using a six-item open-ended electronic questionnaire, which we analyzed using directed content analysis. Our findings suggest that the collaboration helped the students develop more nuanced understandings of disciplinary constructs, international peers, and themselves, providing a platform from which to engage with the big idea of occupational justice. Refinements to this collaboration are aimed at drawing on students' increased critical consciousness to further develop their knowledge about occupational justice.
在设计国际教育合作项目时，职业科学与职业治疗专业的教育工作者必须考虑职业公正如何能够成为学生学习的关键因素。本文描述了一项国际合作项目，该项目涉及美国的52名本科职业科学专业学生和南非的41名本科职业治疗专业学生。这些学生在2016年参加了六次同步视频会议，期间他们就四种职业科学概念进行了小组展示，并参与了一般性问答环节。40%的学生使用一份包含六个项目的开放式电子问卷对互动情况提供了反馈，我们运用定向内容分析法对问卷进行了分析。我们的研究结果表明，此次合作帮助学生对学科概念、国际同龄人以及他们自己形成了更细致入微的理解，为他们提供了一个探讨职业公正这一宏大理念的平台。对该合作项目的改进旨在利用学生增强的批判意识，进一步拓展他们关于职业公正的知识。
