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Critical reflection writing in teacher education programmes is often undertaken without appropriate learning support despite the contribution it makes to informing meaningful changes in the early stages of their teaching careers. Students’ attempts at writing critical reflections often lack discursive depth when connecting theory to practice. However, teaching academics may also need to develop conceptual knowledge of critical reflection as a genre of writing to better inform teaching practices. This paper reports on a small-scale action research project which draws on a cohort of student vo...

Informal civil society initiatives have expanded in recent years, leading to more fluid and less hierarchical forms of civic participation. To effectively boost European democracy, these groups must deepen and solidify without moving toward formalization.

This article explores ways that work-integrated learning (WIL) scholarship and the field of writing studies can benefit from intentional engagement in the context of transfer research. This conceptual paper foregrounds writing in WIL contexts, introduces writing transfer and its relationship to writing in WIL contexts, discusses conceptual overlaps of writing transfer research and WIL, and suggests what writing transfer can mean for WIL practitioners. Overall, we argue that intentional engagement with writing transfer can enrich both WIL research and pedagogy.

Mental Health Recovery Frameworks Often Marginalize Personal Narratives While recovery frameworks challenge traditional psychiatric discourse, this research too often limits lived experience perspectives. 79 For people living with mental health challenges, “recovery” can be a contested and highly personal process, not easily conceptualized through psychological or psychiatric concepts. A new meta-theoretical study by scholars Calvin Swords and Stan Houston from Trinity College Dublin examines how different understandings of recovery impact lived experience, mental health practice, and ser...

Innovation 10 May, 2021 Consistent record keeping is an essential part of nursing practice. This article describes a project to improve and provide guidance for record keeping among Admiral Nurses Abstract Admiral Nurses are specialist nurses who support families affected by dementia. It was recognised that the nurses needed further support with the structure and consistency of their record keeping to ensure high standards were met and the complexity of their work was reflected. This article describes the use of a practice development approach to support Admiral Nurses in their record keep...