Professional Context, Research Site and Partnership
- Publisher:
- Springer International Publishing
- Publication Type:
- Chapter
- Citation:
- Professional and Practice-based Learning, 2016, 15, pp. 17-52
- Issue Date:
- 2016-01-01
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© 2016, Springer International Publishing Switzerland. This chapter describes the professional practices under examination throughout the book, and the site at which the empirical work took place. The role that services for children and families play in addressing major social problems linked to disadvantage and inequality is explained. Relevant features of contemporary public policy in Australia are presented to illustrate local inflections of international agendas around services for children and families, rehearsing the idea of partnership, which is taken up in more detailed at the end of this chapter. The focus then shifts directly on the Unit itself, describing the professionals who work there, and the families they support. Evidence demonstrating the difference a stay on the Unit can make to families is then outlined. The description of the Unit as the site of research continues with discussions of its spatial and temporal characteristics. The next section introduces the idea of partnership within the context of global (health) service reform, and provides details of the Family Partnership Model, the approach adopted by Karitane and many other services globally. The chapter concludes by linking partnership to questions of pedagogy and professional learning in practice.
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