Learning relationships in community-based service-learning: a social network analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Little is known about the social learning of students within community-based clinical placements and ways in which it can be supported. In an allied health service-learning program, we analysed students' learning relationships to quantify what, and from whom students learnt.

Methods

We conducted a social learning network survey in four domains of learning (clinical knowledge, procedural skills, professional development, and complex determinants of health) to explore learning relationships (ties) with other people (alters) that students (egos) formed during their placement. We quantified how different roles (supervisors, health professionals, administrators, peers, schoolteachers, and clients) contributed to the students' learning in each of the four domains. We us

SUBMITTER: Held FP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6482529 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature