{"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<p><strong>\u2018We hit a giant <\/strong><em>\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<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">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).&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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<p>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.&nbsp; Once\nthese pieces were gathered and anonymised three colleagues of ACT met together\nand sentence by sentence thematically analysed the accounts.&nbsp; The results identified five main themes:&nbsp; potential for change, institutional barriers,\ninnovation, desire to make a difference, system control.&nbsp;&nbsp; Together we were able to place our comments under\nthese five headings and from this Tom created the poem \u2018We hit a giant\u2019.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Somehow, reading and sharing our frustrations and disappointments, and indeed hopes &#8211; 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!&nbsp; Thank-you Tom, for giving us the tool to express ourselves and for creating the culmination of our thoughts in such a creative way.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sue Soan &#8211; Faculty of Education<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018We hit a giant \u2013 a poem which enabled us to share our \u2018disappointing\u2019 feelings and helped us recognise we should continue\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3361,"featured_media":1341,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-partners-in-learning","category-poetic-nursing-heart"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"authorName":"Claire Haines","featuredImage":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/partnersinlearning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2018\/04\/PNH-Blog-Image.png","postExcerpt":"\u2018We hit a giant \u2013 a poem which enabled us to share our \u2018disappointing\u2019 feelings and helped us recognise we should continue\u2026.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/partnersinlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/partnersinlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/partnersinlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/partnersinlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/partnersinlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1882"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/partnersinlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1910,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/partnersinlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882\/revisions\/1910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/partnersinlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/partnersinlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/partnersinlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/partnersinlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}