Culture Club: Experiences of running a journal club for continuing professional development in higher education
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https://doi.org/10.14297/jpaap.v8i2.404Keywords:
journal club, continuing professional development, internationalisation, educational technology, transnational educationAbstract
This article discusses the experiences of a journal club established to enable staff from different higher education (HE) institutions and roles to develop their knowledge and understanding around a shared interest in the areas of internationalisation and educational technology. Journal clubs have been used, mainly within the field of medicine and healthcare, to facilitate group learning. The club enabled the group to navigate a complex terrain of literature, develop a focus for reading and identifying a potential area for research and collaboration. Members of the journal club experienced several benefits from participation which are discussed together with the challenges of sustaining engagement over time. The article concludes with highlighting ways in which journal clubs can provide a fruitful form of continuing professional development in higher education, particularly in complex subject areas that traverse numerous roles and domains and makes recommendations for those considering establishing a journal club for similar purposes.
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Gottlieb, M., King, A., Byyny, R., Parsons, M. & Bailitz, J. (2018) Journal club in residency education: An evidence-based guide to best practices from the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors. The Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 19(4), 746–755. https://doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2018.4.37507
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Kelly, P. (2009) Group work and multicultural management education. Journal of Teaching in International Business, 20(1), 80-102. https://doi.org/10.1080/08975930802671273
Kezar, A. & Eckel, P.D. (2002), The effect of institutional culture on change strategies in higher education, The Journal of Higher Education 73(4), 435-460.
Lam, W.S.E. (2012) What immigrant students can teach us about new media literacy, Phi Delta Kappan, 94(4), 62–65.
Lawton, W. and Jensen, S. (2015), An early-warning system for TNE: Understanding the future global network connectivity and service needs of UK higher education, Retrieved from: http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/5860/1/An_early-warning_system_for_TNE.pdf (accessed 30 May 2019).
Lee, A.G., Boldt, H.C., Golnik, K.C., Arnold, A.C., Oetting, T.A., Beaver, H.A., & Olson, R.J., (2005) Using the journal club to teach and assess competence in practice-based learning and improvement: A literature review and recommendation for implementation. Survey of Ophthalmology, 50(6), 542–548. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.survophthal.2005.08.002
Li, J. and Zhang, Z. (2015) An intercontinental inquiry on multicultural education: Canadian and Hong Kong university students connected through a Web 2.0 learning environment, Intercultural Education, 26(6), 562–583. https://doi.org/10.1080/14675986.2015.1109773
Linzer, M. (1987) The journal club and medical education: Over one hundred years of unrecorded history. Postgraduate Medical Journal, 63(740), 475-8. https://dx.doi.org/10.1136/pgmj.63.740.475
Locke, W. (2014) Shifting academic careers: Implications for enhancing professionalism in teaching and supporting learning [online]. York: Higher Education Academy. Retrieved from: https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/sites/default/files/resources/shifting_academic_careers_final.pdf
Locke, W., Whitchurch, C., Smith, H. & Mazenod, A. (2016) Shifting Landscapes: Meeting the Staff Development Needs of the Changing Academic Workforce. The Higher Education Academy: York, UK. Retrieved from: http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1474087/ (accessed 30 May 2019).
Moore, M., Fawley-King, K., Stone, S.I. & Accomazzo, S.M. (2015) Teaching note—incorporating journal clubs into social work education: An exploratory model. Journal of Social Work Education 51(2) 407-416. https://doi.org/10.1080/10437797.2013.768494
Newswander, L.K. & Borrego, M. (2009) Using journal clubs to cultivate a community of practice at the graduate level, European Journal of Engineering Education, 34(6), 561–571. https://doi.org/10.1080/03043790903202959
Nixon, S., & Brown, S. (2013). A community of practice in action: SEDA as a learning community for educational developers in higher education. Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 50(4), 357-365. https://doi.org/10.1080/14703297.2013.839392
O’Mahony, J. (2014) Enhancing student learning and teacher Development in transnational education. The Higher Education Academy Report. https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/system/files/resources/enhancingtne_final_080414.pdf (accessed 30 May 2019).
Purnell, M. and Majid, G. (2017) A Paediatric Nurses' Journal Club: Developing the critical appraisal skills to turn research into practice. Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing, 34(4), 34-41.
Serghi, A., Goebert, D.A., Andrade, N.N., Hishinuma, E.S., Lunsford, R.M. & Matsuda, N.M. (2015) One model of residency journal clubs with multifaceted support, Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 27(3), 329-340. https://doi.org/10.1080/10401334.2015.1044658
Rodriguez, C., Victor, C., Leonardi, N., Sulo, S., & Littlejohn, G. (2016). Barriers to participation in an online nursing journal club at a community teaching hospital. The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 47(12), 536-542. https://doi.org/10.3928/00220124-20161115-05
Rothwell, A. & Rothwell, F. (2014) Sustaining academic professional careers. In L. Gornall,, Cook, C., Daunton, L., Salisbury, J. & Thomas, B. (eds) Academic working lives: Experience, practice and change. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 129–37. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsle/fnv156
Sidorov, J. (1995) How are internal medicine residency journal clubs organized, and what makes them successful? Archives of Internal Medicine, 155(11), 1193-7.
Sims, S., Moss, G. & Marshall, E. (2017) Teacher journal clubs: How do they work and can they increase evidence-based practice? Impact Journal of the Chartered College of Teaching, September 2017. Retrieved from: https://impact.chartered.college/article/sims-teacher-journal-clubs-evidence-based-practice/
Turner, J., Mason, A., Varga-Atkins, T. & Harrison, R. (2016), Understanding international students’ experience of learning with technology, EAIE 28th International Conference, Retrieved from: https://www.eaie.org/past-conferences.html
Valentini, R.P. and Daniels, S.R. (1997) The journal club. Postgraduate Medical Journal, 73(856), 81-85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/pgmj.73.856.81
Wenke, R., O’Shea, K., Hilder, J., Thomas, R., & Mickan, S. (2019). Factors that influence the sustainability of structured allied health journal clubs: A qualitative study. BMC Medical Education, 19(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-018-1436-3
Watson, W. E., Kumar, K., & Michaelsen, L. K. (1993). Cultural diversity's impact on interaction process and performance: Comparing homogeneous and diverse task groups. Academy of Management Journal, 36(3), 590-602. https://doi.org/10.5465/256593
Webb, E. G. (2007). Internationalisation of curriculum: an institutional approach. In Teaching International Students (pp. 121-130). Routledge.
Young, P, & Vilelle, L. (2011) The prevalence and practices of academic library journal clubs. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 37(2), 130-136. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2011.02.004
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