Frontiers in Group Dynamics

Lewin, Kurt

doi:10.1177/001872674700100103

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“…PHN practice borrows heavily from the related disciplines of health promotion, public health and dietetics, and has adopted many of the practice cycles that have evolved in these disciplines (24) , which are all loosely based on action research processes that include cycles of planning, acting, observing and reflecting (25) . Cyclical and systematic processes for intervention management and practice have been used for many years to inform strategic decision making and to enhance the quality and effectiveness of intervention management (26,27) .…”

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The public health nutrition intervention management bi-cycle: a model for training and practice improvement

Hughes

Margetts

2011

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: The present paper describes a model for public health nutrition practice designed to facilitate practice improvement and provide a step-wise approach to assist with workforce development. Design: The bi-cycle model for public health nutrition practice has been developed based on existing cyclical models for intervention management but modified to integrate discrete capacity-building practices. Setting: Education and practice settings. Subjects: This model will have applications for educators and practitioners. Results: Modifications to existing models have been informed by the authors' observations and experiences as practitioners and educators, and reflect a conceptual framework with applications in workforce development and practice improvement. From a workforce development and educational perspective, the model is designed to reflect adult learning principles, exposing students to experiential, problem-solving and practical learning experiences that reflect the realities of work as a public health nutritionist. In doing so, it assists the development of competency beyond knowing to knowing how, showing how and doing. This progression of learning from knowledge to performance is critical to effective competency development for effective practice. Conclusions: Public health nutrition practice is dynamic and varied, and models need to be adaptable and applicable to practice context to have utility. The paper serves to stimulate debate in the public health nutrition community, to encourage critical feedback about the validity, applicability and utility of this model in different practice contexts.

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Section: Core Functions and Competenciesmentioning

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The public health nutrition intervention management bi-cycle: a model for training and practice improvement

Hughes

Margetts

2011

Public Health Nutr.

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“…Lewin's (1947) foundational three-stage model of change (unfreeze, change, and refreeze) is particularly insightful here, as it suggests that the first stage of "unfreezing" requires individuals to overcome the behavioral inertia of their current habits.…”

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Experts, theories, and electric mobility transitions: Toward an integrated conceptual framework for the adoption of electric vehicles

Sovacool

2017

Energy Research & Social Science

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I expand and integrate a theory of mobility (Automobility) with one of science and technology (Actor Network Theory) and one about social acceptance and user adoption (UTAUT).I apply this integrative framework to the diffusion (and non-diffusion) of electric vehicles and the process of electric mobility. I begin by presenting my methods, namely semi-structured qualitative research interviews with social theorists. Then, I present the three theories deemed most relevant by respondents. Automobility holds that, on a cultural or social level, automobiles exist as part of a complex, one that involves hardware and infrastructure-a hybridity between drivers and machines-along with patterns of identity and attitudes about driving pleasure. Actor Network Theory (ANT) involves the concepts of network assemblage, translation, enrollment, and actants and lieutenants. The Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology, or UTAUT, states that on an individual level, the adoption of new technologies will be predicated on interconnected factors such as performance expectancy, effort expectancy, and other facilitating conditions.Based largely on the original interview data supplemented with peer-reviewed studies, I propose a conceptual framework of user acceptance consisting of motile pleasure, sociality, sociotechnical commensurability, and habitual momentum. I conclude with implications for research and policy.

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“…However, in the context of this editorial and in the critical spirit of Rost we wish to challenge today's mythical narrative of change leadership and the reassuring comfort of orthodoxy it encourages, in the real hope that change leadership as currently configured might be receptive to change. Lewin (1947) gave impetus to planned change through Frontiers in Group Dynamics. In a similar manner, Burns (1978) in Leadership gave impetus to a moral form of transforming leadership which emphasized followers, in the belief that such a leadership would transform our institutions and societies.…”

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confidence: 99%