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From Community Theatre to Critical Management Studies: A Dramatic Contribution to Reflective Learning?
(2007) Beirne, M.; Knight, S.
Scotland has a distinctive history of participative art making, especially in community theatre where concerns for mutual learning and collective engagement have a radical edge and close correspondence with the agenda set by enthusiasts for critical and reflective management studies. Reporting experiences from student-centred theatre workshops, this article suggests that insights and innovations associated with community theatre can help to promote a critical pedagogy in management education. Participation, in this instance, encouraged management students to draw on a broader range of ideas and reference points and to invest more of themselves in their studies, calling more confidently on personal experience to explore tensions and dilemmas in management activity, to illuminate contested aspects of organizational life, and to reflect upon the controversial assumptions and preconceptions that frequently inform pronouncements and practices in this area. Caution is required when evaluating the wider significance of this approach, however. The scope for realizing these benefits and extending the reach of community theatre innovations is heavily influenced by institutional contingencies and constraints, including conservative assessment and accreditation systems and the pressures on staff, notably from research and other commitments. Copyright 2007 Sage Publications.
Personality, function and satisfaction in patients undergoing total hip or knee replacement
(Springer Verlag, 2014-03-21) Ramaesh, R.; Jenkins, P.; Lane, Judith; Knight, S.; Macdonald, D.; Howie, C.
Background: The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships between personality and joint-specific function, general physical and general mental health in patients undergoing total hip (THA) and knee arthroplasty (TKA). Methods: One hundred and eighty-four patients undergoing THA and 205 undergoing TKA were assessed using the Eysneck Personality Questionnaire, brief version (EPQ-BV). General physical and mental health was measured using the Short-Form 12 (SF-12) questionnaire and the EuroQol (EQ-5D). Joint-specific function was measured using the Oxford hip or knee score. Results: The unstable introvert personality type was associated with poorer pre-operative function and health in patients with hip arthrosis. In patients with knee arthrosis, there was poorer general health in those with stable extrovert and unstable introvert types. Personality was not an independent predictor of outcome following TKA or THA. The main predictor was pre-operative function and health. Comorbidity was an important covariate of both pre-operative and postoperative function. Conclusions: Personality may play a role in the interaction of these disease processes with function and health perception. It may also affect the response and interpretation of psychometric and patient-reported outcome measures. It may be important to characterise and identify these traits in potential arthroplasty patients as it may help deliver targeted education and management to improve outcomes in certain groups. 2013 The Japanese Orthopaedic Association.