Category: Format – Book
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Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the next)
This book examines mutual aid, a model of collective support and collaboration to meet individual and group needs, usually stemming from recognition that systems in a capitalist society will not and has not met people’s needs. There are three key bedrocks of mutual aid: mutual aid projects work to meet survival needs and build shared…
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Sarah Buhler, Sarah Marsden & Gemma Smyth, Clinical Law: Practice, Theory, and Social Justice Advocacy
This book addresses the many different features of practice in clinical contexts and helps students reflect critically on their experiences. Students learn from many sources including clients, supervisors, communities, and classrooms in clinical programs. Supervisors are employed by legal clinics, usually lawyers, under whose license student’s practice. Supervisors can provide students with connections between theory,…
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Sara Chandler, “Can Litigators Let Go? The Role of Practitioner-Supervisors in Clinical Legal Education Programmes”
This book examines affect through connections between legal education and neuroscience. The authors rely on the following definition of affect set out by Price, 1998: “the affective domain involves the study of emotion: how they are expressed, how they are learned, how they arise, how they are experienced consciously and unconsciously how they are influenced…
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Brigid Proctor, Group Supervision: A guide to Creative Practice
This book explores group supervision, a method of supervision that enhances supervisee skills including, courage and self-discipline, by way of the supervision alliance model (Inskipp and Proctor, 1995, 2001). Brigid Proctor characterises the supervisor as: “the person responsible for facilitating the counsellor, in role of supervisee, to use supervision well, in the interests of the…
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Mary Gobbi, “Learning Nursing in the Workplace Community: The Generation of Professional Capital”
Mary Gobbi expands on Lave and Wenger’s ideas regarding communities of practice by noting that other professions and clients/patients can also become part of the development of a community of practice – learning occurs with and because of others outside what might formally be determined a “community of practice”. Drawing on nursing placements, Gobbi describes…
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Stephen Billet & Linda Sweet, Multiple Dimensions of Teaching and Learning for Occupational Practice
This chapter examines medical students’ learning through their clinical experiences. Much of medical student learning is founded on the concept of relational interdependence; the relational nature of the interdependence between the social norms, forms, and practices that individuals are provided. Observation, questioning, engaging in activities, modeling, and parallel practice, amongst others, all contributed in different…
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Derek Milne & Robert Reiser, Resolving Critical Issues in Clinical Supervision: A Practical, Evidence-based Approach
This book identifies the main kinds of critical issues that arise in the supervision of the health and social professions and provides suggestions on how they can be best resolved through a normative supervision lens. Normative supervision focuses on enhancing quality control through a formal, constructive, work-focused, and interpersonal process which addresses the supervisee’s critical…
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Derek Milne, Evidence-Based Clinical Supervision: Principles and Practice
This book outlines an evidence-based approach to supervision which finds its theoretical foundations in experiential learning. This model of supervision has been likened to the ‘Best Evidence Medical Practice Education,’ in that both models “… treat professional development in a systematic way, based on the highest quality, most relevant research” (2). While this book focuses…