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Complexity and Interprofessional Education
journal contribution
posted on 2023-06-07, 20:03 authored by Helen Cooper, Suzy Braye, Robert GeyerCalls for greater collaboration between professionals in health and social care have led to pressures to move towards interprofessional education at both pre- and postregistration levels. Whilst this move has evolved out of common sense demands, such a multiple systems approach to education does not fit easily into existing traditional disciplinary frameworks and there is, as yet, no proven theoretical framework to guide its development. What is more, it lacks a clear causality and predictability and therefore does not fit easily into traditional scientific frameworks with their focus on analysis, prediction and control. This article considers how complexity theory, with its focus on connectivity, diversity, self-organization, and emergence, can provide interprofessional education with a coherent theoretical foundation, freeing it from the constraints of a traditional linear framework, enabling it to be better understood, questioned and challenged as a new paradigm of learning.
History
Publication status
- Published
Journal
Learning in Health and Social CareISSN
1473-6853External DOI
Issue
4Volume
3Page range
179-189Pages
11.0Department affiliated with
- Social Work and Social Care Publications
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- Yes