Interprofessional Learning as a Third Space: Rethinking Health Profession Students’ Development and Identity through the Concepts of Homi Bhabha

Humanities

Susan E. Sterrett¹  Sara Horton-Deutsch¹ 

[1] Nursing Program, Chatham University, Woodland Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA; E-Mail

关键词: interprofessional education;    third space;    hybridity;    interprofessional identity;   

DOI  :  10.3390/h4040653

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

Homi K. Bhabha is a post-colonial and cultural theorist who describes the emergence of new cultural forms from multiculturalism. When health profession students enculturated into their profession discuss patient care in an interprofessional group, their unilateral view is challenged. The students are in that ambiguous area, or Third Space, where statements of their profession’s view of the patient enmesh and an interprofessional identity begins to form. The lessons learned from others ways of assessing and treating a patient, seen through the lens of hybridity allow for the development of a richer, interprofessional identity. This manuscript will seek out the ways Bhabha’s views of inbetweenness enhance understanding of the student’s development of an interprofessional viewpoint or identity, and deepen the author’s developing framework of an Interprofessional Community of Practice.

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