Dialogue meetings as an arena for collaboration and reflection among researchers and practitioners in a prestudy of a welfare technology testbedShow others and affiliations
2020 (English)In: International Journal of Engineering Management and Economics (IJEME), ISSN 1756-5154, E-ISSN 1756-5162, Vol. 14, no 8, p. 629-634Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
The research question of the article is to explore whether the method dialogue meetings could be relevant for collaboration reflective learning among researchers and practitioners when welfare technology should be implemented in municipalities, or not. A testbed was planned to be implemented in a retirement home in a Swedish municipality, and the practitioners worked with a pre-study of that testbed. The aim of the article is to describe the collaboration and dialogue between the researchers and the practitioners in the dialogue meetings, and to reflect upon the potential of dialogue meetings as an arena for democratic collaboration and reflection among researchers and practitioners. The research methodology approach is participatory action research with mixed methods (dialogue meetings, focus groups,participant observations). During the dialogue meetings, the researchers learned more about the use of traditional research methods, and the practitioners learned more about how they could improve their use of the methods in order to facilitate change processes in their organization. Dialogue meetings could be relevant for reflective learning among researchers and practitioners in different organizational contexts, as a method to promote bridging the gap between practice and research in a democratic way; create inter-professional collaboration and reflection, and contribute to work change processes and sense-making.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2020. Vol. 14, no 8, p. 629-634
Keywords [en]
Welfare technology, testbed, implementation, dialogue meetings, reflection, participatory action research. 1
National Category
Software Engineering Pedagogy
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-16198OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hv-16198DiVA, id: diva2:1517817
Funder
Interreg Sweden-Norway
Note
Finansiär: eTeam
2021-01-142021-01-142024-04-26Bibliographically approved