‘It’s a different world out there’: Improving how academics prepare health science students for rural and Indigenous practice in Australia.
Rural and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) health content in undergraduate health science curricula in Western Australia has been limited. In 2008, a three-and-a-half-day, rurally-based, intercultural and inter-disciplinary programme for academics from three universities aimed to i...
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| author | Durey, Angela Lin, I. Thompson, D. |
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| description | Rural and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) health content in undergraduate health science curricula in Western Australia has been limited. In 2008, a three-and-a-half-day, rurally-based, intercultural and inter-disciplinary programme for academics from three universities aimed to improve how academics prepared health science students for work in this area. Situated learning theory underpinned the programme's design, which prioritised context and participation in the construction of knowledge: academics lived ‘on country’ and participated in the lived experience of a rural and Indigenous community. Semi-structured phone interviews with 21 academics four months later indicated this approach had radically changed thinking and led to a desire to improve rural and Indigenous health and teaching practice. Targeting academics to learn about rural and Indigenous health in situ is one promising strategy for improving undergraduate health science education in this priority area. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-412352017-09-13T14:13:45Z ‘It’s a different world out there’: Improving how academics prepare health science students for rural and Indigenous practice in Australia. Durey, Angela Lin, I. Thompson, D. situated learning teaching practice remote racism rural health education Indigenous health Rural and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) health content in undergraduate health science curricula in Western Australia has been limited. In 2008, a three-and-a-half-day, rurally-based, intercultural and inter-disciplinary programme for academics from three universities aimed to improve how academics prepared health science students for work in this area. Situated learning theory underpinned the programme's design, which prioritised context and participation in the construction of knowledge: academics lived ‘on country’ and participated in the lived experience of a rural and Indigenous community. Semi-structured phone interviews with 21 academics four months later indicated this approach had radically changed thinking and led to a desire to improve rural and Indigenous health and teaching practice. Targeting academics to learn about rural and Indigenous health in situ is one promising strategy for improving undergraduate health science education in this priority area. 2013 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/41235 10.1080/07294360.2013.777035 Routledge fulltext |
| spellingShingle | situated learning teaching practice remote racism rural health education Indigenous health Durey, Angela Lin, I. Thompson, D. ‘It’s a different world out there’: Improving how academics prepare health science students for rural and Indigenous practice in Australia. |
| title | ‘It’s a different world out there’: Improving how academics prepare health science students for rural and Indigenous practice in Australia. |
| title_full | ‘It’s a different world out there’: Improving how academics prepare health science students for rural and Indigenous practice in Australia. |
| title_fullStr | ‘It’s a different world out there’: Improving how academics prepare health science students for rural and Indigenous practice in Australia. |
| title_full_unstemmed | ‘It’s a different world out there’: Improving how academics prepare health science students for rural and Indigenous practice in Australia. |
| title_short | ‘It’s a different world out there’: Improving how academics prepare health science students for rural and Indigenous practice in Australia. |
| title_sort | ‘it’s a different world out there’: improving how academics prepare health science students for rural and indigenous practice in australia. |
| topic | situated learning teaching practice remote racism rural health education Indigenous health |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/41235 |