Navigating without a map
How medical students interact with clinical learning environments
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14690669 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matilda Liljedahl (0000-0003-2011-8180, Karolinska Institutet, corresponding author), Erik Björck (0000-0002-1210-2245, Karolinska Institutet), Sari Ponzer (0000-0003-0573-8509, Department of Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden), Klara Bolander Laksov (0000-0002-3345-3810, Karolinska Institutet) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 275-286 |
| Publication date | 2019-02-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Higher Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0307-5079 • E-ISSN: 1470-174X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03075079.2017.1359822 |
| OpenAlex | W2743913609 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 41 |
Through an exploration of the interdependence between workplace affordances and individual engagement, this study addressed how medical students interact with clinical learning environments (CLEs). Building on the workplace participatory practices approach outlined by Billett, CLEs can be viewed as constructed through a negotiation of meaning between the workplace and the student. Inspired by ethnography, an observational study using field observations and follow-up interviews was performed. Workplace affordances included being given a marginal status in the healthcare team which students adapted to through striving to fit into the workplace. Further, there were many potential activities available to students; however, students seemed selective in terms of what activities they elected to engage in. As such, interacting with CLEs entailed students navigating complexity without the immediate access to any explicit ‘map’ of workplace learning. This study indicates that workplaces increasingly need to invite and include students in the practice of workplaces
Affordance · Citizen journalism · Ethnography · Health care · Higher education · Medical education · Negotiation · Observational study · Pedagogy · Sociology · Computer Science · Higher Education Practises and Engagement · Innovations in Medical Education · Medicine · Psychology · Reflective Practices in Education
Communities of Practice
Learning through work
The hidden curriculum, ethics teaching, and the structure of medical education
Workplace participatory practices
A pluralist view of generalization in qualitative research
Informal learning in the workplace
Case Study Research
Ethnography
Learning Throughout Working Life
Workplace Pedagogic Practices
Using thematic analysis in psychology
Qualitative inquiry and research design
Stories as data, data as stories
Communities of clinical practice
Making connections
| Citations per year | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |