In a paper that we recently made available, we presented a mapping of theory functions such as explanation and prediction on a (generalized) design process. Thus identifying ‘uses’ of theories for design professionals and accordingly ‘demands’ or ‘standards’ resulting from those uses. A question we often get when presenting this work is how generally applicable our mapping is. In other words: do other professions, such as health care professionals, teachers or managers use theories for the same functions?
The short answer is that we don’t know. It seems plausible that other professions have other basic structures identifying different functions of theories as central to the field. But do such mappings exist for other professions? Hope you can put us on track.
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Hi,
At my workplace, a nursing home, we sort of do mapping. It is not real clear who does the follow up, but sometimes it is me. We assess, plan, take action, then evaluate, and we do this over and over. It would be great to have a better tracker of this though.
This is interesting. So you see each element of the PDCA cycle as a theoryfunction?
PDCA stands for Plan - Do - Check - Act; it's a four step plan for systematically evaluating your work and improving it.
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