Practice and service learning in context / Madeleine Duncan and Auldeen Alsop -- A responsive curriculum for new forms of practice education and learning / Madeleine Duncan and Janice McMillan -- Reflecting on contexts of service learning / Robin Joubert, Roshan Galvaan, Theresa Lorenzo and Elelwani Ramugondo -- A quality framework for practice education and learning / Madeleine Duncan and Theresa Lorenzo -- Preparing students for the complexities of practice learning / Helen Buchanan and Lizahn Cloete -- Working in the real world : unlocking the potential of students / Theresa Lorenzo and Helen Buchanan -- Role emerging settings, service learning and social change / Roshan Galvaan -- Group learning experiences in rural communities / Fasloen Adams and Heather Wonnacott -- Group supervision : making the most of limited educational infrastructures / Elke Hagedorn and Fasloen Adams -- Engaging students as partners in service development / Theresa Lorenzo and Auldeen Alsop -- Partnerships in service learning evaluation / Lucia Hess-April -- Group processes in practice education / Madeleine Duncan -- Transforming experience into learning : briefing and debriefing for practice learning / Lindsey Nicholls and Alice Mackenzie -- Promoting competence through assessment / Madeleine Duncan, Robin Joubert -- Engaging with student writing: using feedback to promote learning / Madeleine Duncan and Helen Buchanan -- The student as supervisor / Lana van Niekerk, Madeleine Duncan, and Karen Prakke -- Enhancing potential through lifelong learning and research / Auldeen Alsop -- Looking ahead : future directions in practice education and research / Auldeen Alsop, Madeleine Duncan, Theresa Lorenzo and Helen Buchanan.
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Based on personal logs and verbal accounts, some of the book's chapters describe issues for students as they enter complex practice situations. They show how students assess problems, design and implement interventions and deal with emotions arising from what they see. Above all the book highlights how occupational therapy practice learning can enhance the potential of students to be resourceful and to make an effective contribution to practice in wide-ranging circumstances. The book is based primarily on experiences of occupational therapy placements in South Africa, but aims to have international appeal as key principles of practice learning are drawn from the differing scenarios covered. The book is divided into three sections: the first, on the practice learning agenda, establishes the academic context and purpose of practice learning within an occupational therapy curriculum, and sets it in the context of lifelong learning. The second section examines the opportunities offered by different locations within the hospital and community and compares different practice experiences for students. The final section, on enhancing potential, offers a critique of some of the mechanisms that are used for supporting students, and ends with a look at the future of practice learning and how it might develop.