{"id":1882,"date":"2019-11-01T12:42:38","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T12:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/partnersinlearning\/?p=1882"},"modified":"2019-11-04T12:02:59","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T12:02:59","slug":"we-hit-a-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/partnersinlearning\/we-hit-a-giant\/","title":{"rendered":"We hit a giant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u2018We hit a giant <\/strong>\u2013 a poem which enabled us to share\nour \u2018disappointing\u2019 feelings and helped us recognise we should continue\u2026.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Towards the end of the academic year, 2018 a group of\nacademics from various disciplines and professions met to discuss whether it\nwas worth continuing with our joint-working project called ACT (Action for\nCollaborative Transformation).  Many of\nus had been working and meeting together since 2014 and we were passionate\nabout providing our students with opportunities to learn and study together\nacross professions and disciplines.  We\nwere, and still are convinced, that it is only through these opportunities,\npre- and post-qualification, that professionals working in different\nprofessions and disciplines across public services can improve outcomes for all\nthe people we work with.  However, due to\nmany issues, we were feeling despondent and discouraged, but we didn\u2019t know how\nto share our thoughts in a way that would enable us to \u2018keep-going\u2019 and\nrecognise the importance of what we were aiming to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tom suggested that we should independently write a short\npiece stating why we were members of ACT and why it should continue. Some of\nthe group decided to follow Tom\u2019s idea.  Once\nthese pieces were gathered and anonymised three colleagues of ACT met together\nand sentence by sentence thematically analysed the accounts.  The results identified five main themes:  potential for change, institutional barriers,\ninnovation, desire to make a difference, system control.   Together we were able to place our comments under\nthese five headings and from this Tom created the poem \u2018We hit a giant\u2019.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Somehow, reading and sharing our frustrations and disappointments, and indeed hopes – in this poetic manner, gave us the determination to keep taking one step forward even though we knew we might have to keep experiencing the two steps backwards!  Thank-you Tom, for giving us the tool to express ourselves and for creating the culmination of our thoughts in such a creative way.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sue Soan – Faculty of Education<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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