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- Bivall, Ann-Charlotte, Universitetslektor, 1977-, et al.
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Students’ interprofessional workplace learning in clinical placement
- 2021
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Ingår i: Professions & Professionalism. - : OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University. - 1893-1049. ; 11:3
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Students’ learning in the workplace during their clinical placements is an important part of their education to become healthcare professionals. Despite the number of studies of student interprofessional learning in clinical placements, little is still known about the significance of interprofessional learning and how it is facilitated and arranged for to occur. This article aims to investigate interprofessional learning between students collaborating in a workplace-driven arrangement integrated into a clinical placement. A focused ethnographic research approach was applied, comprising observations of ten students participating in the arrangement organised by clinical supervisors on a medical emergency ward at a Swedish university hospital, followed by group interviews. Using a boundary-crossing lens, the article analyses the workplace arrangement, in which students’ learning across professional boundaries and their negotiations around a boundary object were prerequisites to coordinate their interprofessional knowledge and manage emerging challenges while being in charge of care on the ward.
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- Eklund, Sanna, 1985
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To co-opt or to be co-opted? The role of professional elites in strengthening professional control vis-à-vis clients
- 2021
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Ingår i: Professions and Professionalism. - : OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University. - 1893-1049. ; 11:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article studies how professional elites, as exemplified by first teachers (FTs)—a new prominent position for teachers in Sweden—respond to clashes between market and professional logics, and how this affects professional control vis-à-vis clients. Based on a collaborative ethnography, findings suggest that the professional elites use different responses to the clashes between the logics. Professional control can be strengthened by FTs co-opting the market logic strategically in the interest of the profession. However, FTs sometimes also succumb to cliental influence, becoming co-opted themselves by the market logic, which weakens professional control. Tentatively, context needs to be highlighted in order to understand why different responses are used, and in this identity work and relationships to managers seem essential to create a foundation for FTs to respond in ways that increase professional control vis-à-vis clients. © 2021 the authors.
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- Franzén, Cecilia
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The Complexities of Boundaries, Task Claims, and Professional Identity in Teamwork : from Dentists’ Perspective
- 2020
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Ingår i: Professions & Professionalism. - : Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences. - 1893-1049. ; 10:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article concerns how dentists in a Swedish dental care organisation conceptualized work division when teamwork was requested by the senior manager and their boundary work in relation to dental auxiliaries. Data were drawn from semi-structured interviews with the dentists. The dentists’ made claims to tasks based on legislation and their wanting to focus on tasks that required their expertise. Dental auxiliaries may be reluctant to take on new tasks and become more involved in patient care, which indicates that they have some influence in the work division. Nevertheless, the dentists retained control as their invitation for dental auxiliaries in patient care was based on certain conditions. The dentists’ claim to certain tasks may have strengthened their identity as experts and reinforced boundaries between themselves and dental auxiliaries.
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- Jansson, Per, 1966-
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School counsellors’ professional practice in health promotion, prevention and remedial work in Swedish schools
- 2024
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Ingår i: Professions & Professionalism. - Oslo : Oslo Metropolitan University. - 1893-1049. ; 14:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- According to the Swedish Education Act, schools in Sweden must provide comprehensive student health services to foster an inclusive and conducive learning environment, promoting students’ well-being and knowledge development. As part of a multi-professional team, school counsellors are essential in achieving these goals. However, national guidance lacks details on the role of school counsellors in health promotion, prevention and remedial efforts. This study addresses this knowledge gap by examining aspects of school counsellors’ professional work using theories of professions. Open-ended answers in a survey distributed to school counsellors in Sweden were analysed through content analysis. Findings show that remedial work primarily focuses on individual students’ social issues through conversation-based interventions. Preventive work targets groups and the broader school environment, often involving tasks like policy development. Health promotion work stands out with its educational component, where school counsellors are involved in Life Competence Education, often in collaboration with other school professionals.
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- Lundvall, Lise-Lott Christina, 1959-, et al.
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Professional Challenges in Medical Imaging for Providing Safe Medical Service
- 2021
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Ingår i: Professions & Professionalism. - Oslo, Norway : Oslo Metropolitan University - Storbyuniversitetet. - 1893-1049. ; 11:2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study explores the organization of medical physicists’, radiologists’, and radiographers’ professional work and the challenges they encounter ensuring quality and safe medical service within medical imaging. A practice theory perspective was used for data collection, which consisted of 14 open interviews, and data analysis. The concept of tension was used for the interpretation of findings. Three tensions are presented in the findings: 1) between diverse general and practical understandings about the activities in practice; 2) between material-economic conditions and activity in practice, and 3) between discursive-culture conditions and activity in practice. This study found that new technology, economical rationality, and the organisation of work processes lead to fewer face-to-face meetings between different professions. Therefore, medical imaging as dispersed practices misses opportunities for learning across practices, which can lead to patient safety risks. To ensure patient safety, new forms for learning across practices are needed.
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- Löfdahl, Annica, 1960-, et al.
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Narratives of Teachers and Teacher Unions in Swedish Facebook Rebellion Groups
- 2023
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Ingår i: Professions & Professionalism. - : Nordic network of researchers in the study of professions (NORDPRO). - 1893-1049. ; 12:3
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study examines narratives about the teaching profession and teacher unions that Swedish teachers jointly produce in two teachers’ rebellion groups on Facebook, which is followed by a total of around 20,000 teachers. A sample of 33 posts and 2,445 comments were analysed using a narrative approach. The findings highlight narratives in which teachers wish to return to “the good old days”, struggle with everyday frustrations, call for a strike as an immediate solution, and describe hypothetical futures presenting the opportunity for proactive action and call teacher unions to dialogue rather than wait for them to satisfy the teachers’ demands.
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- Löfgren, Håkan, 1957-, et al.
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A Cross-Professional Analysis of Collegiality Among Teachers and Police Officers
- 2020
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Ingår i: Professions & Professionalism. - Oslo, Norway : Oslo Metropolitan University - Storbyuniversitetet. - 1893-1049. ; 10:2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article compares collegiality between two professional groups—teachers and police officers. The purpose is to add an open, “cross-professional dimension”to the discussion about collegiality in the teaching and police professions. By investigating collegial relations within the two professions, we provide a unique comparison. Using positioning theory, we analysed variations in stories about colleagues and found that the functions of collegiality share similar norms of trust, loyalty and professionalism. Moreover, what seems to be a case of collegial resource can paradoxically be a challenge to clients when different practices of and responses to professional behaviour are outlined. We suggest that the reason forthis paradox might be found in the exposure of individualised responsibility and accountability within the two professions,which drives a perceived need for collegial community-building processes.
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- Nilsson-Lindström, Margareta
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Swedish School Reforms and Teacher Professionalism
- 2020
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Ingår i: Professions and Professionalism. - : OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University. - 1893-1049. ; 10:3, s. 38-78
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The education policy of the last few decades has significantly changed the Swedish school system. Municipalization and deregulation reforms were implemented in parallel with an internationally prescribed professionalization of teachers. This seemingly contradictory combination has reshaped not only teachers’ attitudes and actions but also those of principals and students as managers and consumers. In light of these changes, the professionalization of teachers and the strategic importance of a teacher-specific knowledge base, multi-year academic training, certification and career steps are analysed. Based on Freidson's three competing work organization and control logics, this article focuses on how the mix of logics has changed at the expense of professionalism in favour of bureaucracy and the market. The professionalization reforms have in some respects benefited teachers, especially with regard to their positions in the labour market. In other respects, the actions of managers and consumers have resulted in restrictions on teachers' autonomy as professionals.
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- Persson, Sofia, 1972, et al.
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Dilemmas and Discretion in Complex Organizations: Professionals in Collaboration with Spontaneous Volunteers During Disasters
- 2021
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Ingår i: Professions and Professionalism. - : OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University. - 1893-1049. ; 11:2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Discretion is of major interest in research on professions. This article focuses on professionals’ discretionary reasoning about collaboration with spontaneous volunteers. By applying theories on discretion and institutional logics and drawing on disaster management research, we analyse interviews with fire and rescue service professionals involved in managing a large-scale forest fire in Sweden. We identify five major dilemmas concerning the involvement of spontaneous volunteers in the official disaster response and analyse the influence on professional reasoning of multiple institutional logics (professional, citizen, bureaucratic and market) embedded in the emergency organization. The analytical framework connects structure and agency by linking institutional logics to discretional reasoning, and the findings clarify professional emergency responders’ perspectives on the opportunities and challenges of involving spontaneous volunteers in an operation.
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- Rantatalo, Oscar, et al.
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The enactment of professional boundary work : a case study of crime investigation
- 2023
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Ingår i: Professions & Professionalism. - Oslo : OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University. - 1893-1049. ; 13:2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Professional boundary takes place as actors negotiate occupational boundaries and division of labour. In this article, we examine the conditions of defensive, accommodating, and configurational boundary work in the context of crime investigation. We analyse how professional boundaries are negotiated as civilian investigators become involved with policing. The article is based on 71 interviews with civilian and police crime investigators from a variety of investigation units in Sweden. Findings show how policing as a professional field is shifted as civilians from a wide variety of backgrounds and with varying motivations enter the occupation. Defensive boundary work that devalued civilians was widely occurring. However, boundary work that focused on learning, collaboration, and training was also occurring in high-status units. The discussion focuses on how power asymmetries impact boundary work when professions are undergoing change. This study exemplifies how organizational actors navigate, defend, and challenge their positions as professional boundaries are negotiated.
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- Singh, Nina, et al.
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Strategic compliance : A study of professionals' responses to sales management control
- 2022
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Ingår i: Professions and Professionalism. - : OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University. - 1893-1049. ; 12:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study responds to the call for research on how different and often conflicting discourses co-exist in professionals’ everyday work experiences. The paper explores how professionals respond to sales management in the context of two professional service firms (PSFs). Based on a qualitative study of employees’ experiences of sales, our findings suggest that the professionals respond to sales management by engaging in strategic compliance, i.e., adhering to rules and expectations to achieve goals of professional advancement (financial, status, autonomy), which, in turn, reinforces their membership of the profession. We identified three modes of strategic compliance: career-, integration-, and survival-mode. This conceptual framework contributes with a deepened understanding of the complex relationship between professional work and sales management. Specifically, our study suggests that while strategic compliance may help professionals navigate the tensions between professional- and sales-ideals, it is also associated with struggle and normalizes sales as a part of professional work.
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- Törnqvist, Tove, 1985-, et al.
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Students’ Interprofessional Collaboration in Clinical Practice : Ways of Organizing the Patient Encounter
- 2022
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Ingår i: Professions & Professionalism. - Oslo, Norway : Oslo Metropolitan University - Storbyuniversitetet. - 1893-1049. ; 11:3
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- As health care increases its focus on collaborative practice, universities must provide students with opportunities to learn how to collaborate with different professions and translate this knowledge into practice, known as interprofessional education. Simultaneously, researchers struggle to understand the full complexity of interprofessional education and must therefore conduct multiple-site studies, employ observational work, and apply theory throughout the research process.This paper draws on focused ethnographic fieldwork at two different sites focusing on how students organize collaboration during interprofessional clinical placements. Findings indicate that the way students organize their collaboration is intertwined with how patients were introduced during handovers and involved mobilizing knowledge as “betwixt and between” familiar student practices and unfamiliar clinical practices. Findings also show how authentic situations, artifacts and spatial features supported students to mobilize collaboration.
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