- Title
- Collaboration across the health care and education interface: what is it like for teachers of children with traumatic brain injury?
- Creator
- Massey, Sarah; Fisher, Karin; Croker, Anne; Smith, Tony
- Relation
- Australian Journal of Primary Health Vol. 21, Issue 1, p. 74-78
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/PY13035
- Publisher
- CSIRO Publishing
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- For those involved in supporting and educating children with traumatic brain injury, the interface between health care and education is complex. This paper reports the findings of a study exploring how teachers of children with traumatic brain injury experience collaboration with health-care professionals. A phenomenological approach was used to understand teachers’ experience of collaboration. Semi-structured interviews were undertaken with five teachers who taught children with traumatic brain injury in a regional area of Australia. The findings revealed that the experience of collaboration for teachers is characterised by moving through three notional spaces (starting out in the interactive space, moving into a collaborative space and embracing the collaborative space). As they move through these spaces, teachers widen their self-sufficient practice horizon to develop reciprocity with health-care professionals. The findings from this study highlight a need for health-care professionals to be sensitive to, and aware of, teachers’ familiarity with interdisciplinary collaboration, issues related to knowledge differentials and time constraints.
- Subject
- traumatic brain injuries; children; education; health care; regional Australia
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1309385
- Identifier
- uon:21857
- Identifier
- ISSN:1448-7527
- Language
- eng
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