I show that practice-based research is in fact short term problem-oriented research which serves educational purposes by upgrading students’ and teachers’ skills and knowledge of the profession and dynamics in the work environment which also has the potential to improve company products or design solutions and at the same time contribute to local and regional innovation in professions and profession related institutions.
I emphasized how practice-based research can improve and enrich the curricula, while at the same time, building necessary skills of future healthcare professionals and improving practices in already existing healthcare institutions. This type of research is an integral part of teaching and curricular assignments in the healthcare settings in the Netherlands and Germany, and particularly at universities of applied sciences. I used interview excerpts and examples of projects related to healthcare at different universities of applied sciences in the Netherlands and Germany (also known as polytechnics in Portugal) to advance the role of practice-based research in educational innovation. In this presentation/paper I explain and highlight the role of practice-based research as an instrument for educational innovation in healthcare sciences. They aim to gather data and improve existing practices of primary care, practice-based research is not only about gaining new knowledge via practice and improving existing practices. Practice based research networks have also been gaining on importance in healthcare as ways of addressing research questions informed by practicing clinicians. In other words, practice-based research has been used to gain new knowledge partly by means of practice and the outcomes of that practice. In fact, the way nurses and doctors train is through extensive and intensive practice. Practice-based research is not uncommon in healthcare. People who exhibit gender variance may be called gender variant.S1 The role of practice-based research in stimulating educational innovation in healthcare Sandra Hasanefendic Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV Amsterdam, the Netherlands Gender variance, or gender nonconformity, is the behavior by an individual that does not match masculine and feminine gender norms. Gender Queer is an umbrella term for gender identities that are not exclusively masculine or feminine - identities that are thus outside of the gender binary. Pansexuality, or omnisexuality, is sexual attraction, romantic love, or emotional attraction toward people of any sex or gender identity. Intersex is a variation in sex characteristics, including chromosomes that do not allow an individual to be distinctly identified as male or female.Īsexuality (or non-sexuality) is the lack of sexual attraction to anyone.Īn Ally is a person who considers herself, himself as a friend to the LGBT community. The questioning(unsure) of one’s gender, sexual identity, sexual orientation, or all three. However, some LGBTQIA people still find the term offensive.
But, beginning in the late-80s, LGBTIQ activists began to reclaim the word. Queer was originally used as an insult against the LGBT community. Queer is sometimes used as an umbrella term for the LGBT community, or people that are not heterosexual or cisgender (Cisgender people are people whose gender identity and expression match the sex they were assigned at birth.). Transgender people have a gender identity/expression that differs from the sex that they were assigned at birth. It means a man is sexually/romantically attracted to men.Ī bi is sexually/romantically attracted to both women and men. It means a woman is sexually/romantically attracted to women.Ī gay is a homosexual man. What does LGBT/LGBTQ+/LGBTQIA+/LGBTTTQQIAA+ mean? LetterĪ lesbian is a homosexual woman.