Identity and agency: Exploring the relationship between theory and professional practice in Healthcare students' academic writing

随着高等教育中职业课程的日益学术化，职业课程学生的写作需求受到了关注。这些学生通常来自扩大参与度(WP)背景，他们经常觉得没有准备好应对课程要求的多种作业类型。本研究采用定性个案研究设计，探讨卫生与社会护理专业学生写作的性质和学生写作面临的挑战。调查问卷、半结构访谈和学生写作分析将收集数据。研究对象将来自英国东南部一所大学的基础和本科生队列，研究结果将为了解职业学生写作的经验提供重要的见解。结论将为大学支持和留住WP学生提供切实可行的建议，并将有助于英国教育中关于识字技能的更广泛辩论。这项研究将通过考虑卫生保健学生作家面临的语言挑战，并通过探索学生在写作前参与的更深层次的过程来补充现有的文献，这些过程涉及理论、实践、身份和中介等问题。本研究将解决以下研究问题：1.医学生对理论与实践的关系有何看法？(生活经验与学术理论在多大程度上是一致的？)2.医疗保健专业的学生在写作中有哪些阐述这种关系的经验？)他们写作的时候是谁？他们在文化、职业和个人方面有多自由地表达自己？)3.学术素养干预在让学生作家对写作中的身份、发言权和代理问题敏感方面有多有效？我采用以论文为中心的研究路线，采用以下结构来探讨关键主题：论文1：《人》--个人对理论与实践之间关系的理解，以及作为学生作家的身份认同和使命感。论文2：《写作》--个体如何在写作中阐明理论与实践之间的关系，并就身份认同和中介问题进行协商。论文3：《学习环境(S)》--学校如何支持学生作家的工作日程--论文1的背景阅读已经完成，文献综述正在起草中。下一年的工作计划：在2020年4月之前完成伦理审批申请(到2020年2月)进行从《培训需求分析》中确定的培训设计问卷/面试问题(到2020年6月)进行试点/初步访谈/问卷阶段的研究(到2020年5月)开始为论文一起草文献综述在2020年6月之前完成个人论文：论文一将于2021年6月起草论文论文二将于2022年至2023年起草论文三预计完成日期：2025年

With the increasing academisation of vocational courses in Higher Education (HE), attention is beingdrawn to the writing needs of students on vocational programmes. Often from widening-participation(WP) backgrounds, these students frequently feel unprepared to tackle the multiple assignment typesrequired by their courses. Adopting a qualitative case study design, this research explores the nature ofwriting in the discipline of Health and Social Care and the challenges facing student-writers.Questionnaires, semi structured interviews and analysis of student writing will be used to gather data.Participants will be drawn from foundation and undergraduate cohorts at a university in the S. E. ofEngland and results will provide important insights into the experiences of vocational student-writers.Conclusions will offer practical recommendations for universities in supporting and retaining WP students,and will contribute to wider debates about literacy skills in UK education. This research will add to the existing literature by considering the linguistic challenges faced byHealthcare student-writers,and also by exploring deeper pre-writing processes students engage in whennavigating issues of theory, practice, identity and agency. The study will address the following researchquestions:1.What are Healthcare students' perceptions of the relationship between theory and practice? (To whatextent does lived experience align with academic theory?) 2.What are Healthcare students' experiences of articulating this relationship in their writing? (Who arethey when they are writing? How free are they to represent themselves culturally, professionally,personally?) 3.How effective are academic literacy interventions in sensitising student-writers to issues of identity,voice and agency in their writing? I am adopting a thesis by-paper route using the following structure to explore key themes: Paper 1:'The person'-the individual's understanding of the relationship between theory and practice andtheir sense of identity and agency as student-writers.Paper 2:'The writing'-how the individual articulates the relationship between theory and practice in theirwriting and negotiates issues of identity and agency.Paper 3:'The learning environment(s)'-how the institution supports student-writers Schedule of work Background reading for Paper 1 is already complete and the literature review is being drafted. Plans for work over the next year: To complete ethical approval application (by February 2020)Undertake training identified from 'training needs analysis' by April 2020Design questionnaire/interview questions (by June 2020)To conduct pilot/initial interviews/questionnaire phase of research (by May 2020)To begin drafting Literature Review for paper one by June 2020Dates individual papers completed: Paper one to be drafted by June 2021Paper two to be drafted by 2022-23Paper three 2023-24Expected completion date: 2025