Institutional Ethnography: A Method for Showing How the Context Shapes Practice.

Townsend, Elizabeth

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ERIC Number: EJ525596

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1996

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Institutional Ethnography: A Method for Showing How the Context Shapes Practice.

Townsend, Elizabeth

Occupational Therapy Journal of Research, v16 n3 p179-99 Sum 1996

Observations and interviews over six months at seven adult mental health day programs in Canada showed how organizational context shapes occupational therapy practice. The social organization of knowledge forms an invisible controlling apparatus that constrains the empowerment of adult clients. (96 references) (JOW)

Descriptors: Adult Day Care, Adult Education, Context Effect, Empowerment, Ethnography, Mental Health Programs, Occupational Therapy, Organizational Climate, Social Control

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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