In 30 home care visits implementing the Mobility Agreement, the most common cycle combination was client-expansive and worker-expansive (40%), yet at least one party was predominantly defensive in 60% of cases¶

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Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · qualitative r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2018 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? The combination of client's expansive cycle and worker's expansive cycle (++) comprised 40% of 30 home care visits, while the both-defensive combination (--) comprised 23%. → Nummijoki 2018 q2 i? In 60% of the 30 cases at least one party was engaged in a predominantly defensive learning cycle. → Nummijoki 2018 (2)

Evidence¶

Nummijoki 2018¶

Nummijoki, J., Engeström, Y., & Sannino, A. (2018). Defensive and expansive cycles of learning: A study of home care encounters. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 27(2), 224-264. https://doi.org/10.1080/10508406.2017.1412970

q2 · i? · qualitative · r2

Coding analysis of 30 videotaped home care visits over three years, classifying each client's and worker's cycle as predominantly expansive or defensive. The authors report that the ++ combination "was the most common type of combination, comprising 40 % of the cases."

"the combination of client's expansive cycle and worker's expansive cycle (++) was the most common type of combination, comprising 40 % of the cases"

Nummijoki 2018 (2)¶

Nummijoki, J., Engeström, Y., & Sannino, A. (2018). Defensive and expansive cycles of learning: A study of home care encounters. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 27(2), 224-264. https://doi.org/10.1080/10508406.2017.1412970

q2 · i? · qualitative · r2

Same coding analysis of 30 visits. The authors note that although the new practice had momentum, "in 60 % of the cases at least one of the parties was engaged in a predominantly defensive cycle."

"in 60 % of the cases at least one of the parties was engaged in a predominantly defensive cycle"

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• In encounters where both parties are predominantly expansive, early cycle actions such as questioning and modeling are typically absent and the focus is on implementing and consolidating
• In encounters where both client and worker are predominantly defensive, the learning cycle stalls before implementing, reflecting and consolidating actions — related
• Clients shifted between defensive and expansive stances nearly twice as often as workers, and initiatives connected to physical actions were more effective than verbal hints at triggering shifts — related
• Encounters with a mismatch between client's and worker's learning cycles typically contained all or almost all learning actions of the ideal-typical expansive cycle — related