Practitioner-Based Research: Power, Discourse and Transformation - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1855755386 ISBN 13: 9781855755383

Publisher: Routledge, 2008

Synopsis

Practitioner-Based Research is concerned, in particular, with the research which is undertaken by healthcare practitioners and the evidence which they generate as a result of investigating their practice. In so doing it recognizes that, as well as working in academic life, practitioner researchers are often working as practitioners outside the Academy. It argues that the work of practitioner researchers has a significant contribution to make to healthcare research and so needs to be disseminated further in order to create balanced research communities within the healthcare professions. This book will help academic researchers to broaden the limited ontological and epistemological perspectives of their research. It will also encourage healthcare practitioners who have not been trained academically to develop their research skills and to realize that they are actually researching in their practice on a day-to-day basis. Finally, it will provide a degree of transparency about therapeutic processes to help clients and patients to see aspects of professional practice and development which are usually hidden from them.

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About the Author

Dawn Freshwater

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1855755386
• ISBN 13: 9781855755383
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 252
• Editor: Freshwater Dawn, Lees John