Shared sense-making strategies in curriculum reform: District-level perspective

Making sense of Medicaid reform.

Mental distress: strategies of sense-making.

The irruption of severe mental distress into the life of an individual determines a deep biographical disruption. To cope with this crisis, individuals are involved in a laborious sense-making activity, through the composition of narratives intended to create a new link between past, present and future. This essay analyses the sense-making strategies that follow this dramatic experience through...

Exploring the Role of Inquiry and Reflection in Shared Sense-making in an Inquiry-based Science Classroom: toward a Theory of Distributed Shared Sense-making

Despite considerable attention to inquiry and reflection in the literatures of science education and teacher education/professional development over the past century, few theoretical or analytical tools exist to compare/contrast these processes, or to characterize their development, within a naturalistic classroom context. In the current research study, we develop a model of shared sense-making...

Making sense of technology adoption in healthcare: meso-level considerations

It has been clear for some time that the development of telecare faces significant problems. Large scale studies and clinical trials seem to suggest that the cost and clinical effectiveness of telecare systems is doubtful, and the claim that these systems empower or enable service users often seems greatly overstated. The question that stems from this is, can these problems be overcome? Greenha...

Judging Perspective: Making Sense of the 2010 Census