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Learning and Knowing Occupation

Developing understandings of occupational (in)justice with occupational therapy students in a transnational project

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Pages 588-598 | Accepted 02 Nov 2020, Published online: 09 Feb 2021
 

ABSTRACT

This article describes an innovative transnational education project involving three European universities, funded through ERASMUS+. One of its aims was to develop and provide a curriculum to facilitate students’ understanding and identification of occupational (in)justice by exposing them to marginalised people living in three European communities with differing cultural, social, and political systems. Occupational injustice is an ongoing deprivation or patterns of disruption that creates health burdens, barriers to educational and social opportunities, and risk to the individual’s lifespan. We describe how a transnational educational collaboration offered a new way of facilitating learning of occupational (in)justice in a practical way to stimulate the application of concepts to discipline specific thinking and engage students in debate about new areas of potential practice which are transformational. The educational theory underpinning the project is discussed, together with a description of how authentic learning experiences supported the development of occupational justice knowledge and justice-focused practice.

本文介绍了一个由 ERASMUS+ 资助的涉及三所欧洲大学的创新跨国教育项目。其目标之一是开发和提供一种课程,即,通过让学生接触生活在具有不同文化、社会和政治制度的三个欧洲社区的边缘化人群,促进学生对生活活动(不)公正的理解和识别。生活活动不公正是一种持续的剥夺方式或破坏模式,会导致健康负担、接受教育和社会机会的障碍以及个人寿命的风险。我们描述了跨国教育合作如何以一种实用的方式提供一种新方法来促进生活活动(不)公正的学习,以激发将概念应用于规范特定思维,并让学生参与关于变革性潜在实践新领域的辩论。讨论了支持该项目的教育理论,并描述了真实的学习经验如何支持生活活动正义知识,以及以正义为中心的实践的发展。

El presente artículo da cuenta de un innovador proyecto educativo transnacional en el que participan tres universidades europeas, financiado por ERASMUS+. Uno de los objetivos de este proyecto era desarrollar y ofrecer un plan de estudios que facilitara a los estudiantes la comprensión y la identificación de la (in)justicia laboral, acercándolos a personas marginadas que habitan tres comunidades europeas que poseen sistemas culturales, sociales y políticos diferentes. En ese sentido, la injusticia ocupacional supone la privación continua o la existencia de patrones de perturbación que generan problemas de salud, barreras a las oportunidades educativas y sociales, así como riesgo para la vida del individuo. En el artículo damos cuenta de cómo una colaboración educativa transnacional proporcionó una nueva forma de facilitar el aprendizaje de la (in)justicia ocupacional de manera práctica, para estimular la aplicación de los conceptos en aras de disciplinar el pensamiento específico e involucrar a los estudiantes en el debate sobre potenciales nuevas áreas de práctica que resulten transformadoras. Asimismo, abordamos la teoría educativa que sustenta el proyecto y realizamos una descripción que da cuenta de cómo las experiencias auténticas de aprendizaje apoyaron el desarrollo del conocimiento de la justicia ocupacional y la práctica centrada en la justicia.

Acknowledgements

The team are grateful to all the community partners who supported the project, offered new sights, and readily engaged with the students throughout the 3 years. The team are thankful for co-funding by the ERASMUS+ programme of the European Union (Grant no. 2016-1-SE01-KA203-022102) to support the development and delivery of this project.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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