Open this publication in new window or tab >>2022 (English)In: Children's health care, ISSN 0273-9615, E-ISSN 1532-6888, Vol. 51, no 1, p. 20-36Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
New parents are offered parental education groups as a way to support their transition to parenthood. Interactive approaches in these groups are of importance, but studies have reported a lack of activities that support interaction. Cooperative learning is a structured method when working with groups and based on five elements essential to maximizing the cooperative potential of groups. The aim was to investigate the leadership skills of child healthcare nurses as leaders for parental education groups, their ideas about creating conditions for well-functioning groups, and what is required to achieve this. The results were analyzed and discussed using social interdependence theory as a framework and especially the five elements of cooperative learning. Further, the study used a qualitative descriptive design, and eight qualitative interviews were analyzed deductively using thematic analysis. The results showed that in their narratives the nurses display vocational knowledge and describe conditions important for their groups from a cooperative learning perspective. Nevertheless, the results indicate that the nurses had difficulty explicitly instructing parents to use their personal experiences and social skills to get groups to function effectively. Knowledge developed in the workplaces from the experience of leading groups is mostly implicit, and formal knowledge and awareness of leadership is necessary for development of the role.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Routledge; Taylor & Francis, 2022
Keywords
Child healthcare nurses, cooperative learning, leadership, parental education groups, social interdependence theory
National Category
Pedagogy
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-178172 (URN)10.1080/02739615.2021.1949319 (DOI)000678973400001 ()2-s2.0-85111690617 (Scopus ID)
Funder
Swedish Research Council, 2016-03550
Note
Funding: Swedish Research CouncilSwedish Research CouncilEuropean Commission [2016-03550]
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