MaryBeth Gallagher

Covid-19 and social justice movements of the last three years created monumental changes in education. These changes provided opportunities for exploration and innovation in the new Duke occupational therapy doctorate program. Duke OTD received a grant from Duke Learning Innovation to establish a professional learning community (PLC) to engage in inquiry, reflection and action toward fostering classrooms and program systems characterized by equity, inclusion, and belonging. This poster presentation shares the results of the this practice based learning inquiry, fostering inclusion in the classroom and antiracism in our teaching.

This session of AJOT Authors & Issues features guests MaryBeth Gallagher (Duke University), Nancy Bagatell (UNC Chapel Hill), Kimberly Conrad (UNC Health), and Darren Peters (UNC Health). They discuss their article published in Volume 77, Issue 1 of AJOT entitled: Using Practice Based Enquiry to Enact Occupation-Centered, Justice-Oriented Practice in an Acute Mental Health Setting.

Link to Open Access article:https://research.aota.org/ajot

Paper is based on a practice based enquiry in an acute mental health setting. Practicing therapists as co-researchers explored their own practice with a view to change. In the process, the therapists encountered their own occupational injustices and collectively sought and discovered ways to create change at the micro and meso levels.

Poster presentation of experience of TBL and ULD to foster inclusion in the the classroom in the first cohort in the Duke OTD.