I wonder if anyone has suggestions / resources / comments on good ways
to help clinical practitioners understand and develop social science
ways of writing and thinking? We run a PGCE and Masters programme for
Interprofessional Clinical Educators and I am finding it hard to find
resources on writing to meet their needs. There seem to be three main
issues. 1. They have had scientific training initially and see social
science writing and thinking as woolly, waffly, imprecise, dense, wordy
- they find it very unfamiliar. 2. They write reports in their
professional work and that becomes their default style 3. A lot of them
don't write very much at all - the medium for much of their teaching and
clinical practice is verbal and practical. I think there are also some
status issues in play too as very senior, expert staff come to terms
with being novices - sometimes as educators, sometimes as students of
education.
Thank you in anticipation, Rebecca
Dr Rebecca O'Rourke
Senior Lecturer
Lifelong Learning Institute
Room 7.57 EC Stoner Building
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
(0)113 343 3181
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