L1 Critical Perspective in OT Flashcards
define occupational science
occupational science is concerned with how people participate in everyday life, understanding human occupation
define critical thinking
- involves the capacity to become an other, to inhabit, if only briefly, a cognitive perspective that is unfamiliar
- critical thinking is searching for and producing ‘rival formations’, that ‘remind us that things could be otherwise’
define critical perspective
- taking a critical perspective is to look for the other explanations and underlying assumptions in what is ‘taken-for-granted’ or ‘common sense’
- are not necessarily negative or aimed at finding fault- but finding alternative explanations and different possibilities
what is the aim of critical OT
“… commitment to questioning the hidden assumptions and purposes of completing theories and existing forms of practice and responding to situations of oppression and injustice by giving rise to new possibilities. as such, critical work is concerned not merely with how things are, but how they should be.”
explain the three domains of criticality
knowlegde (critical reason): critique of ideas, concepts, theories, propositions, treatment, approaches, evidence
self (critical self-reflection): critique of oneself, one’s internal dialogue, personal behaviours/actions and patterns
world (critical action): critique of the social world: other people in society, physical environments, policies, social norms and cultures, socioeconomic contexts
what are the levels of criticality?
- critical skills: rudimentary skills, applying techniques
- reflexivity/critical thinking: drawing from multiple perspectives/traditions to consent ‘taken-for-granted’ assumptions. opening up debate, contesting universals
- refashioning traditions: developing traditions of thought and action
- transformatory critique: engaging in advanced critique and reconstruction of though and action
draw table of domains and levels of criticality
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