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OCCUPATION: WISDOM FROM PRAXIS OF THE MOST EXPERIENCED OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS IN ARAUCANÍA REGION, CHILE

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  • Pamela Elena Caro-Vines Corporación de Desarrollo de la Comunicación Joaquín de los Andes - Universidad Santo Tomás
Vol. 18 No. 1 (2018): Junio
https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5346.2018.50367

Abstract

The current hegemony of English-speaking in definitions about occupation, demonstrate low knowledge and visibility of wisdom in local Occupational Therapy (OT) work, reason why this research aims to understand the wisdom about occupation from Occupational Therapists praxis in Araucanía Region, Chile. The methodology is constructivist, qualitative, descriptive, with a supported theory design. Three key informants participate, a semi structured interview is used with thematic script; the analysis is descriptive, axial and selective, based on codification, constant comparison and triangulation among informants. The results describe that wisdom is formed by a core of essential contents, accepted and shared among TOs where the word “hacer” (do or make in English) emerges as a common code; the characteristics of local context influence these comprehensions and contribute to widen occupation interpretations; wisdom is expressed and shaped on OT praxis (OT processes, teach/validate and teaching) and also in actions and arguments where underlies the OTs understanding of occupation. It is concluded that occupation wisdom is implicit and naturalized in Chilean daily OTs work and in the understanding that nourishes and determines their praxis, they shape situated knowledge that promotes and appropriate praxis, and stresses the predominance of global views. However, it is possible to glimpse an epistemological abyss between the English-speaking hegemonic academic discourse –with attractive theoretical proposals and aspirations for universal definitions- and the situated knowledge that emerges anchored in specific contexts of OT praxis in Chile.

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Occupation, Occupational Therapy, Wisdom, Praxis, Southern epistemologies

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Caro-Vines, P. E. (2018). OCCUPATION: WISDOM FROM PRAXIS OF THE MOST EXPERIENCED OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS IN ARAUCANÍA REGION, CHILE. Revista Chilena De Terapia Ocupacional, 18(1), 55–72. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5346.2018.50367
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Revista Chilena de Terapia Ocupacional
Facultad de Medicina
Universidad de Chile
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