Stephanie Meeuwissen received the AERA Young Investigator Award
The American Educational Research Association (AERA) Division I: Education in the Professions, has selected Stephanie Meeuwissen as the 2021 New Investigator Award recipient for her work on the paper “Successful Interdisciplinary Teamwork in Medical Education: An Ethnographic Case Study Revealing Leader Contributions to Inclusiveness”. Congratualations Stephanie.
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Two aspects that are vital to the success of teamwork are “team learning behavior” by all team members and “leader inclusiveness behavior” by the team leader. This case study aimed to offer unique insight into how leader inclusiveness behavior manifests itself in a successful interdisciplinary teacher team, demonstrating team-learning behavior in undergraduate medical education. The paper describes a qualitative, ethnographic case study using observations, interviews and a documentary analysis of email communication.
The authors selected and studied an existing, interdisciplinary teacher team with medical, biomedical, and social sciences backgrounds, that was responsible for an undergraduate medical course and known to be successful. In this study, leader inclusiveness behavior became evident from verbal and non-verbal interactions between the team leader and team members and manifested itself in five actions undertaken by the team leader: coordinating, explicating, inviting, connecting and reflecting. Team members, too, were found able to reinforce team learning behavior. By participating actively, speaking up and mimicking leader inclusiveness behavior, they demonstrated that they were engaged and felt included, while creating additional opportunities for the leader to exhibit leader inclusiveness behavior.
The full paper is published online: https://doi.org/10.1080/10401334.2021.1887738