Abstract
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Body practice |
| Subtitle of host publication | The body in professional practice, learning and education |
| Editors | Bill Green, Nick Hopwood |
| Place of Publication | Dordrecht, The Netherlands |
| Publisher | Springer-Verlag London Ltd. |
| Chapter | 14 |
| Pages | 227-242 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Edition | 1st |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9783319001401 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783319001395 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Publication series
| Name | Professional and practice-based learning |
|---|---|
| Volume | 11 |
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Looking like an Occupational Therapist : (Re)presentations of her comportment within Autoethnographic tales. / Denshire, Sally-Anne.
Body practice: The body in professional practice, learning and education. ed. / Bill Green; Nick Hopwood. 1st. ed. Dordrecht, The Netherlands : Springer-Verlag London Ltd., 2015. p. 227-242 ( Professional and practice-based learning; Vol. 11).Research output: Book chapter/Published conference paper › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
TY - CHAP
T1 - Looking like an Occupational Therapist
T2 - (Re)presentations of her comportment within Autoethnographic tales
AU - Denshire, Sally-Anne
N1 - Includes bibliographical references.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - The work of occupational therapists to do with ordinary-everyday activities of others is ambivalently represented. Indeed current notions of ‘regulated evidence’ and ‘wise practice’ can present clashing traditions for occupational therapists. Writing practice differently since the 1980s, I am interested in internal and external representations of lived bodies in practice. This chapter, about the role that representations(s) might play in better understanding practice and the body, draws on selected moments of my occupational therapy work from the 1980s. Each fictive re-telling of a selected article from my body of work placed in dialogue with a corresponding tale was presented in a portfolio of autoethnographic tales of sexuality, food and death. The excerpts in this chapter show the socio-material comportment of a 30-something occupational therapist going about her youth-specific practice in a paediatric hospital. Having a woman’s lived and practising body located in the foreground of these autoethnographic re-tellings provides a series of unexpected (re)presentations of professional practice. Professional comportment is disciplined and shaped through a series of experiences of comfort and discomfort occurring within, on and around a lived and practised body, as well as what inter-professional others notice about each other’s demeanour and conduct on a hospital ward.
AB - The work of occupational therapists to do with ordinary-everyday activities of others is ambivalently represented. Indeed current notions of ‘regulated evidence’ and ‘wise practice’ can present clashing traditions for occupational therapists. Writing practice differently since the 1980s, I am interested in internal and external representations of lived bodies in practice. This chapter, about the role that representations(s) might play in better understanding practice and the body, draws on selected moments of my occupational therapy work from the 1980s. Each fictive re-telling of a selected article from my body of work placed in dialogue with a corresponding tale was presented in a portfolio of autoethnographic tales of sexuality, food and death. The excerpts in this chapter show the socio-material comportment of a 30-something occupational therapist going about her youth-specific practice in a paediatric hospital. Having a woman’s lived and practising body located in the foreground of these autoethnographic re-tellings provides a series of unexpected (re)presentations of professional practice. Professional comportment is disciplined and shaped through a series of experiences of comfort and discomfort occurring within, on and around a lived and practised body, as well as what inter-professional others notice about each other’s demeanour and conduct on a hospital ward.
KW - Occupational therapist
KW - Professional practice
KW - Occupational therapy
KW - Therapist character
KW - Regulate evidence
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-00140-1_14
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-00140-1_14
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 9783319001395
T3 - Professional and practice-based learning
SP - 227
EP - 242
BT - Body practice
A2 - Green, Bill
A2 - Hopwood, Nick
PB - Springer-Verlag London Ltd.
CY - Dordrecht, The Netherlands
ER -