Abigail W Konopasky

Biographic Data

ID641264
NAMEAbigail W Konopasky
GIVEN NAMESAbigail W
FAMILY NAMEKonopasky
SIGNATUREKONOPASKY A W
AFFILIATIONSMedical Education Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine Hanover New Hampshire USA
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • How Theory Can Inform Practice

    Open AccessStephanie N E Meeuwissen, Yvonne Steinert et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2024

    Health professions educators aim to optimally prepare trainees for future practice; educational theory can help reach this goal. Below we present an authentic case, I Just Need to Speak With My Eyes, that displays the significant struggles of transitioning into residency training. Using this case, we show how the application of 4 learning mechanisms described in Lave and Wenger’s1,2 theories of situated learning and communities of practice can he…

  • Occupying liminal spaces

    Open AccessKatherine S McOwen, Abigail W Konopasky et al.ARTICLEMedical Education2024

  • The figured world of medical education senior leaders

    Open AccessKatherine S McOwen, Lara Varpio et al.ARTICLEMedical Education2024

  • Strategic shifts

    Kyoko Sheridan, Xiaorong Zhang et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Learning Sciences2022

    Background In studio art, students are expected to be highly agentive—to engage in creative processes to form personalized representations of ideas, yet we lack knowledge on how teachers support their agency. Approaching agency as co-constructed practices across temporal dimensions, we examine how teachers shift between autonomy-supportive and directive approaches, building students’ artistic agency.Methods Secondary qualitative analysis of video…

  • Signaling Allyship

    Abigail W Konopasky, Abigail Konopasky et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2022

    U.S. medical schools continue to foster racism, homophobia, and transphobia through underrepresentation of racial, ethnic, sexual, and gender minorities. 1–3 Minoritized individuals experience discrimination and trauma, often with little support. 1–3 An informal preliminary needs assessment 4 of minoritized learners at our institution indicated that, due to faculty underrepresentation, they were uncertain about which faculty were safe to discuss …

  • Towards a Diagnostic Toolkit for the Language of Agency

    Abigail W Konopasky, Abigail Konopasky et al.ARTICLEMind Culture and Activity2016

    Agency—broadly, the capacity to produce effects—is a critical aspect of human activity, yet its multifaceted character makes analysis difficult. Drawing from functional linguistics, we propose a linguistic toolkit for analyzing the degree to which and manner in which speakers represent themselves as acting intentionally and autonomously. After a brief review of relevant agency literature, we propose three sets of grammatical tools, demonstrating …