Anti-racism and Occupational Therapy Education: Beyond Diversity and Inclusion
There is a pressing need to address racism within healthcare education; however, occupational therapy educators lack a compilation of discipline-specific knowledge of anti-racist actions. The objective of this study was to examine anti-racist instructional practices for educators to employ in occupa...
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Eastern Kentucky University
2022-01-01
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| description | There is a pressing need to address racism within healthcare education; however, occupational therapy educators lack a compilation of discipline-specific knowledge of anti-racist actions. The objective of this study was to examine anti-racist instructional practices for educators to employ in occupational therapy education. We conducted a scoping review and systematically searched six electronic databases to identify and synthesize anti-racist educational practices within the occupational therapy literature. The 20 included articles identified that educators should: use collaborative, anti-racist teaching strategies throughout the curriculum; engage in reflexivity including how intersecting identities impact occupational engagement; decolonize curricula through including Indigenous content and non-Western practice frameworks; increase representation of Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color students and faculty; and strengthen educators’ capacity to engage in anti-racist actions. To address systemic injustices to educational inclusion and prepare students to address health care inequities, occupational educators must engage in anti-racist actions across curriculum, programs, and universities. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-019949f8d4254baca3077619147bb58d2022-12-21T23:33:31ZengEastern Kentucky UniversityJournal of Occupational Therapy Education2573-13782022-01-016110.26681/jote.2022.060103Anti-racism and Occupational Therapy Education: Beyond Diversity and InclusionJulia Sterman0Janet Njelesani1Shanteria Carr2Edinburgh Napier UniversityNew York UniversityNew York UniversityThere is a pressing need to address racism within healthcare education; however, occupational therapy educators lack a compilation of discipline-specific knowledge of anti-racist actions. The objective of this study was to examine anti-racist instructional practices for educators to employ in occupational therapy education. We conducted a scoping review and systematically searched six electronic databases to identify and synthesize anti-racist educational practices within the occupational therapy literature. The 20 included articles identified that educators should: use collaborative, anti-racist teaching strategies throughout the curriculum; engage in reflexivity including how intersecting identities impact occupational engagement; decolonize curricula through including Indigenous content and non-Western practice frameworks; increase representation of Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color students and faculty; and strengthen educators’ capacity to engage in anti-racist actions. To address systemic injustices to educational inclusion and prepare students to address health care inequities, occupational educators must engage in anti-racist actions across curriculum, programs, and universities.decolonizingoccupational therapycultural humilityreflexivitybipoc |
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| title | Anti-racism and Occupational Therapy Education: Beyond Diversity and Inclusion |
| title_full | Anti-racism and Occupational Therapy Education: Beyond Diversity and Inclusion |
| title_fullStr | Anti-racism and Occupational Therapy Education: Beyond Diversity and Inclusion |
| title_full_unstemmed | Anti-racism and Occupational Therapy Education: Beyond Diversity and Inclusion |
| title_short | Anti-racism and Occupational Therapy Education: Beyond Diversity and Inclusion |
| title_sort | anti racism and occupational therapy education beyond diversity and inclusion |
| topic | decolonizing occupational therapy cultural humility reflexivity bipoc |
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