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Changing Practices through Practice Dialogues

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Professional Practice Discourse Marginalia

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In any workplace the discourses and traditions of practice are established over time and embedded in a continually emerging storyline that is unique to that organisation (Boje, 2013). Morgan (2006) reminds us that the culture of an organisation is a complex non-linear system “characterized by multiple systems of interaction that are both ordered and chaotic” (p. 251) and which continue to self-evolve in ways that are largely unpredictable.

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  1. Busby Medical Practice, Australia

    Suzanne Alder PhD (Adjunct Senior Research Fellow)

  2. Oberon Medical Centre, Australia

    Suzanne Alder PhD (Adjunct Senior Research Fellow)

  3. The Education For Practice Institute, Charles Sturt University, Australia

    Suzanne Alder PhD (Adjunct Senior Research Fellow)

  4. School of Health & Human Sciences, Southern Cross University, Australia

    Sandra Grace PhD (Adjunct Associate Professor)

  5. The Education For Practice Institute, Charles Sturt University, Australia

    Sandra Grace PhD (Adjunct Associate Professor)

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  1. The Education For Practice Institute, Charles Sturt University, Australia

    Joy Higgs

  2. The Education For Practice Institute, Charles Sturt University, Australia

    Franziska Trede

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Alder, S., Grace, S. (2016). Changing Practices through Practice Dialogues. In: Higgs, J., Trede, F. (eds) Professional Practice Discourse Marginalia. Practice, Education, Work and Society. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-600-2_21

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