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How to empower partnerships

How to empower partnerships. Faculty Conference 17 July Jan Fook School of Education. Partnerships in practice research. Partnerships involving collaborations between researchers, educators, practitioners, service users to research practice in social services in order to improve it.

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How to empower partnerships

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  1. How to empower partnerships Faculty Conference 17 July Jan Fook School of Education

  2. Partnerships in practice research Partnerships involving collaborations between researchers, educators, practitioners, service users to research practice in social services in order to improve it

  3. Levels of partnership – a continuum

  4. Perspectives on partnership • Managerialist • Democratic • Therapeutic

  5. Issues in enabling partnerships – some experiences • Difficulties in making change • Being “stuck” in roles • Need to show respect and understanding of the contexts/cultures of others • Openness to paradigm shifts and constant mindfulness • The meaning of equality? (and the problem of power)

  6. How to empower partnerships? • Clarify the goals and directions of the project (and basic assumptions and expectations) early on, but also continuously • Clarifying the kind of partnership which is needed to achieve the specific goal/s of the project (ie. What combination/proportion of roles, who leads, etc). • Keep an open culture in the group to include all different viewpoints, and to explore differing expectations, viewpoints, experiences. • Take into account the more subtle ways of creating group culture, and reinforcing more powerful cultures.

  7. Recognize that there are different types of power which may operate differently in the group • Create a more “neutral” routine space to discuss the more “emotional” experience of the process (eg. Perhaps a small segment at the end of each meeting) • Be aware of attitudinal changes which are needed • Try to be self reflexive to appreciate the limitations of one’s own perspective and the subtle ways this might influence our behavior towards others.

  8. Reference • J. Fook, A. Johannessen, & M. Psoinos (2011) • Partnership in practice research: a Norwegian Experience • Social Work and Society (Europe), Vol. 9 , issue 1 (urn:nbn:de:0009-11-29253)

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