An international systematic mapping review of educational approaches and teaching methods in occupational therapy

Authors:
HOOPER Barbara, et al
Journal article citation:
British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 76(1), 2013, pp.9-22.
Publisher:
Sage

The authors provide a systematic mapping review of the educational approaches and teaching methods published internationally in the occupational therapy literature between 2000 and 2009. A total of 129 articles were studied and identified topics, research design, levels of impact and themes across educational scholarship. Data were examined using a data extraction tool modified from Best Evidence Medical Education, entered into Microsoft Access and analysed using queries. Conceptual/descriptive papers (n = 76) represented the primary form of inquiry. Research papers (n = 53) used qualitative designs slightly more than quantitative or mixed methods. Educational interventions (n = 22) targeted students' skills, knowledge, attitudes and perceptions, but not their behaviours, organisational change or impact on clients. Prominent themes included integrative learning, learning paradigm, complexities of practice, student reasoning and calls for reforming occupational therapy education. The authors put forward the following priorities for educational research include deepen and diversify studies of local learning situations, develop profession-specific conceptual frameworks for learning and measure outcomes beyond student views of the learning activity.

Subject terms:
occupational therapy, teaching methods, education;
Content type:
research review
Link:
Journal home page
ISSN online:
1477-6006
ISSN print:
0308-0226

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