posting by: TL Thompson & C Adams What does it mean to be human in an increasingly technologized and networked world? Cathy Adams (University of Alberta, Canada) and I have been exploring the digital and how to make its effects and affects visible. And in so doing, make the digital available for critical reflection and ethical consideration. We suggest that… Read more →
We have no way of knowing what doing it right is. (Fraser, a paramedic working interprofessionally in a mental health emergency) We have volumes of information telling professionals in different sectors how to work together, and why they should. We have a flurry of interprofessional education programmes to drive home the message, often embracing collaboration as inherently a good thing… Read more →
Computer technologies and computer-mediated information and communication are increasingly parts of professional practice and learning. They are part of the programmes of preparation for professionals and the assemblages of professional work and learning once in situ. These technologies are often taken simply to be tools to be used to enhance professional practice. Technology has always been important to work, but… Read more →
Materials – things that matter – are often missing from accounts of educational processes such as learning. Materials tend to be ignored as part of the backdrop for human action, dismissed in a preoccupation with consciousness and cognition, or assumed to be subordinate to human intention and design. This sort of treatment still tends to privilege human beings, as though… Read more →