Community outcomes of occupational therapy service learning engagements: perceptions of community representatives.
Background: Service learning is used as an educational approach in many undergraduate occupational therapy programmes in South Africa and the rest of the world. Evidence for the impact of occupational therapy service learning engagements in communities, from the perspectives of community partners, i...
| Published in: | South African Journal of Occupational Therapy Vol. 49; no. 1; pp. 12 - 19 |
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Occupational Therapy Association of South Africa
Apr2019
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