Reciprocal Learning in Partnership Practice: An Exploratory Study of a Home Visiting Program for Mothers with Depression

Autor/inn/en	Fowler, Cathrine; Dunston, Roger; Lee, Alison; Rossiter, Chris; McKenzie, Jo
Titel	Reciprocal Learning in Partnership Practice: An Exploratory Study of a Home Visiting Program for Mothers with Depression
Quelle	In: Studies in Continuing Education, 34 (2012) 2, S.99-112 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0158-037X
DOI	10.1080/0158037X.2011.611800
Schlagwörter	Depression (Psychology); Foreign Countries; Mothers; Nurses; Reciprocal Teaching; Teaching Methods; Family School Relationship; Home Visits; Interviews; Interpersonal Relationship; Knowledge Level; Locus of Control; Decision Making; Partnerships in Education; Infants; Child Rearing; Role; Inquiry; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Mother; Mutter; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Hausbesuch; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Wissensbasis; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Hochschulpartnerschaft; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Kindererziehung; Rollen; Australien
Abstract	This paper reports on a small exploratory study that investigates the place and role of reciprocal learning within a partnership-based home visiting program for mothers experiencing depression. The study is one important example of an increased focus on reciprocal learning within practice that has significant implications for the development of professional education and, more generally, for workplace learning and ongoing professional development. The study addresses two major gaps in the research literature: a lack of detailed accounts of how partnership based approaches are taken up and developed in Australian health care; and a lack of attention to learning as a focus and outcome of partnership-based practice. Using information from in-depth interviews with nurses and mothers we describe and analyse the experience of participants, their learning and knowledge development, the techniques used to facilitate learning, and the development of a relationship between mother and nurse, and mother and child. We identify a fundamental repositioning in practice that was being enacted and learned by all nurses, and a shift in practice strategy from expert assessment and knowledge provision, to practice as a process of shared inquiry and learning. We identify key relational strategies developed by the nurses and commented on by the mothers. We identify a shift in how the mothers experienced the locus of knowing and decision making in relation to their child/children and their parenting. Nurses enhanced their ability to formulate effective interventions for mothers, to build a deeper understanding of mothers' experience, and to challenge or reinforce their own existing beliefs and knowledge. We suggest much of what was described by both the nurses and mothers within this study can usefully be described in terms of reciprocal learning, or as pedagogy. Such findings, we argue, have significant implications for the conceptualisation of health professional practice, the identification of the capabilities required to deliver partnership forms of practice, and, critically, for the redesign of curriculum in the area of health professional education. (As Provided).
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