Learning inter-professional teamwork during university studies: a case study of student-teachers’ and social work students’ shared professional experiences

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The Interplay of Compassion, Subjective Happiness and Proactive Strategies on Kindergarten Teachers’ Work Engagement and Perceived Working Environment Fit

“…Considering the emerged role of collaboration, training student teachers to work within teams (when taking decisions, solving problems, planning educational task), as well as to be aware and foster their interpersonal skills, could be useful to prepare them to face the school context. Studies addressing these dimensions have shown that when preservice teachers take part to preparation programs fostering these dimensions are better at dealing with interpersonal conflicts, empathetically relate to children, families, and colleagues, and better collaborate with other professionals [101,102].…”

Teachers’ Work Engagement and Burnout Profiles: Associations With a Sense of Efficacy and Interprofessional Collaboration at School

“…However, both in the field of teacher education and in other fields, the need for multidisciplinary studies and closer collaboration with students from several fields has been identified. Collaborative actions practiced during master's studies might promote a collaborative culture and mutual respect between different professional groups (see Lakkala et al, 2017;also Lakkala et al, 2021). In addition, professionals in various fields have found the development of transparent interprofessional practices as being necessary to ensuring the functioning of interprofessional collaboration (Leppäkoski et al, 2017).…”

Teachers Supporting Students in Collaborative Ways—An Analysis of Collaborative Work Creating Supportive Learning Environments for Every Student in a School: Cases from Austria, Finland, Lithuania, and Poland

“…For example, in all of our school cases there were several professionals working with the students, their families, and teachers during the school day. When the collaborative network expands beyond the teaching staff, there are even more possibilities for misunderstandings between parties who represent different professional backgrounds [24]. In interprofessional teamwork, the role of an individual as a part of the group [8] and the social and professional relationships in the team [23] are important.…”

“…It contains the idea of looking at something together from the perspectives of one's own and another's profession, learning from professionals in other fields [8]. The difficulty of interprofessional teamwork lies in the dilemmas that may arise from the different professional orientations and each team member's abilities to detect his/her own role as a promoter of collaboration and negotiator of new goals in boundary spaces [8,24]. The premise of interprofessional teamwork is shared expertise, whereby team members create goals and strategies together, instead of offering ready-made solutions based on one's own profession [23].…”