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Practitioner Experience (practitioner + experience)
Selected AbstractsBringing Practitioner Experience into the Classroom: The United Nations Intensive Summer Study ProgramINTERNATIONAL STUDIES PERSPECTIVES, Issue 4 2004Courtney B. Smith Diplomatic practitioners and policy makers represent an important, although frequently neglected, resource for teaching about international relations. The insights and stories provided by practitioners regarding key processes and events are often able to inspire our students to engage complex material and to play a much more active role in their own learning. While it is possible to argue that any type of practitioner contact is beneficial in terms of going beyond the material covered in textbooks, there are definite challenges associated with how to most effectively integrate these experiences with overall student learning. What type of format is most conducive to providing students with an insider's view? What type of preparation is required before contact with practitioners? How can student learning be evaluated in terms of assignments and debriefing activities? And finally, are traditional student feedback mechanisms appropriate for a course that involves a substantial practitioner component? This article investigates each of these challenges in the course of discussing one mechanism for bringing practitioner experience into the classroom, the United Nations Intensive Summer Study Program. [source] Therapeutic options for Bowen's diseaseAUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGY, Issue 1 2007Gilberto Moreno SUMMARY Multiple therapeutic options are available for treatment of Bowen's disease. The choice of therapy depends on clinical circumstance and medical practitioner experience. Newer therapies have more extensive support from the literature, but more established therapies may be preferred because of accessibility, cost and efficacy. An overview of the current therapeutic options for Bowen's disease is presented. [source] A practitioner's view from the front linesNEW DIRECTIONS FOR YOUTH DEVELOPMENT, Issue 87 2000Robert Stasko M.D. One practitioner's experience mirrors the changing face of the AIDS epidemic. [source] From experience: Capturing hard-won NPD lessons in checklistsTHE JOURNAL OF PRODUCT INNOVATION MANAGEMENT, Issue 5 2001Raymond F. Riek The application of a good New Product Development (NPD) process is frequently limited by the experience of the user. Avoiding relatively minor errors and omissions that can lead to seriously flawed project results is still an art. Checklists for each stage of a development project can capture this art and their disciplined use can avoid many potentially critical omissions and errors. Development of checklists frequently comes from the hard experiences many of us have had in bringing new products to market. Consequently, benchmarking "trials and tribulations" rather than success stories can be more appropriate to developing a thoughtful checklist. This article is a partial accumulation of one practitioner's experiences of over three decades of executing, managing, directing and observing these projects. Fifteen NPD case histories are examined to develop learnings from these experiences. These cases are organized around three basic product development issues: managing technical risks, managing commercial risks, and managing NPD personnel. In these examples, NPD project problems have a common theme of poor technical or commercial risk management, as opposed to technical failure. Improved planning and a more disciplined management interface would have avoided many of the problems discussed in these case histories. Analysis of each of the case histories and learnings is provided from which suggested checklist items are derived. These checklist additions are presented by development stage to allow use by other NPD teams, with the intention of avoiding the repetition of similar problems. [source] Reflections on the Methodological Issues of the Sociology of LawJOURNAL OF LAW AND SOCIETY, Issue 2 2000Reza Banakar The general focus of this paper is on the methodological limitations of the sociology of law in capturing the law's ,truth' as its practitioners experience it. The paper starts with arguing that the law does not have a monolithic ,truth'. Some aspects of its ,truth' are produced through its own recursively sealed operations, while its other aspects are generated with reference to empirically grounded knowledge, which potentially links the discourses of law and sociology. Notwithstanding this discursive kinship, the sociological studies of the law's internal processes cause difficulties even to those scholars who are versed in substantive law. To expound this problem, the sociology of law is compared with medical sociology and attention is drawn to the way sociology copes with the ,truth' of medicine. The final part of the paper initiates a quest for possible solutions to the methodological problems of the sociology of law by placing them in the context of the ongoing conflicts and competitions of the field of science. [source] Control and legacy as functions of perceived criticality in major incidentsJOURNAL OF INVESTIGATIVE PSYCHOLOGY AND OFFENDER PROFILING, Issue 3 2004Jonathan Crego Abstract This paper outlines a model that captures the experiences of 28 Senior Officers who have managed some of the most significant police incidents in the UK in the past 5 years. The process for capturing the model rests on ,pragmatic psychology' (Fishman, 1999; Alison, West & Goodwill, 2003), a paradigm that recognizes practitioners' experiences as a central component of research and policy development. We utilized a set of connected electronic notebooks to enable each critical incident manager to log their experiences and views of the case that they managed. As each individual logs this information, it is simultaneously distributed to all participants. Thus, information is rapidly shared, stimulating further thought and discussion. Following the initial knowledge-sharing phase, participants reorder the material into themed categories that can then be scored against specific criteria (in this case ,impact' and ,ease'). This session revealed that senior officers consider a combination of two co-occurring issues as most significant in defining the ,criticality' of the incident: (i) how direct an impact the facet has on the enquiry at hand; and (ii) whether that issue will influence how the service will be judged (by the community, the victims and the media). These issues were perceived as the most complex and difficult to deal with. We argue that this perception is a joint function of perceived lack of control alongside the belief that judgment and blame regarding the incident will ultimately reside with them as managers. 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