Purpose: To evaluate the impact of knowledge translation (KT) on factors influencing virtual reality (VR) adoption and to identify support needs therapists. Hypotheses: Intervention will be associated with improvements in therapists' perceived ease use self-efficacy, an increase intentions VR. Method: Single group mixed-methods pre-test–post-test evaluation convenience sample physical, occupational rehabilitation therapists (n=37) from two brain injury centres. ADOPT-VR administered pre/post...

In response to community demand, The Office of the Coordinator Health Sciences at University British Columbia in Canada developed a two-day Interprofessional Team Building workshop and piloted it twice. workshops included faculty students with clinical experience from nine different health human service programmes. design was drawn team-building theory exercises used business education. It augmented by examples case-based discussions. purposes were: expand student's knowledge other...

Abstract While there is a great deal of support for the integration Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) into higher education, still significant amount work to be done move beyond tokenism. Intensive dialogue and robust conceptual outlooks are required. In this paper, international team South African Australian scholars engage in transcultural transdisciplinary order chart how discourses debates about IKS understood different historical cultural contexts Africa Australia. They combine...

Distance education via computer-assisted learning (CAL), including Web-based and CD-ROM learning, confers a number of advantages compared with traditional methods. The purposes this study were (1) to determine the interest Canadian physical therapists in participating continuing using CAL methods (2) whether was related type employment, area practice, education, computer skill access, other demographic variables.A random sample all members cardiopulmonary groups surveyed.Of 1,426 survey...

Global doctoral education has been particularly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter movement, which have drawn attention to vast inequities faced black, cultural minority Indigenous peoples. These developments focused urgent on need de-homogenise Australian education. universities very slow create recognition accreditation programs for First Nations transcultural (migrant, refugee international candidates) knowledge systems, histories, geographies, languages practices in...

In response to community demand, The Office of the Coordinator Health Sciences at University British Columbia in Canada developed a two-day Interprofessional Team Building workshop and piloted it twice. workshops included faculty students with clinical experience from nine different health human service programmes. design was drawn team-building theory exercises used business education. It augmented by examples case-based discussions. purposes were: expand student's knowledge other...

Abstract Despite a high demand for continuing professional education, it is becoming more challenging to provide education in resource‐limited environment that meets the varied needs of learners. The advent user‐friendly, interactive communication technology led University British Columbia Canada explore feasibility developing web‐based distance learning programme shared by undergraduate and practising therapists address this problem. Potential benefits challenges learning, web‐learning,...

This paper analyzes the impact of a stroke on roles people who experienced and their partners, focusing relationship between environment role performance. Ethnographic research methods were used to discover ways in which meaning content are shaped within context social relationships. Suggestions offered regarding questions occupational therapists can ask assess family structure, effect disability influence physical roles.

In this article, two autoethnographies from Australia and New Zealand provide a means of engaging students in difficult histories colonial nations. The first looks to knowledge as basis understanding others, the second focuses on concepts empathy vulnerability way histories. Each these are accompanied by collaborative writing, where authors come together reflect narratives through frame sociocultural theory. We propose notion enacted, rather than an attribute that someone has order bring...

Background: Virtual reality (VR) is a relatively new treatment tool with emerging evidence supporting its use in neurorehabilitation, although no information exists about how therapists VR clinically. Objective: This study's purpose was to docume

The impetus to decolonise high schools and universities has been gaining momentum in Southern locations such as South Africa Australia. In this article, we use a polyvocal approach, juxtaposing different creative scholarly voices, argue that poetry offers range of generative possibilities for the decolonisation school university curricula. Australian First Nations’ at forefront Indigenous political protest movement land rights, recognition, justice Treaty since British settlement/invasion....

In this paper we discuss the ways in which successive governments have addressed Indigenous affairs, and argue that Australian approach is still firmly rooted colonial attitudes discourses. Although self-determination a core concept of neoliberalism, dominant political ideology for both Labor Liberal parties Australia since 1980s, it does not extend to couched frameworks. specific examples education cultural sustainability (including language development sustainability) are used as case...

Background: Identifying patients' and caregivers' learning needs perspectives on provided education activities is vital for the development of effective in rehabilitation, yet it may not be deemed important. This study explored stroke a Canadian rehabilitation centre to illustrate one approach addressing this problem. Methods: qualitative description was overlaid by phenomenology; in-depth interviews were transcribed then analysed using foundational thematic analysis approach. The concepts...

While attempts to decolonise the school curriculum have been ongoing since 1970s, recent Black Lives Matter protests around world drawn urgent attention vast inequities faced by and First Nations peoples people of colour. Decolonising education other public institutions has become a front-line concern world. In this article, we argue that poetry offers generative possibilities for decolonisation Australian high (and university) curricula. Inspired Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander approaches...

1School of Rehabilitation Sciences, University British Columbia, Vancouver, CANADA, 2School Physical Therapy, Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada.