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Virginia Dickie, PhD, OT, FAOTA, was the honored scholar at the 2018 Mitchell Symposium, an annual event hosted by the Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy. The symposium was established in 2011 in honor and memory of Marlys Mitchell, PhD, the founder of the master\u2019s program in OT at UNC. Symposium scholars deliver a public lecture and participate in talks, discussions, and meetings with faculty, students, and researchers. The symposium is made possible through generous gifts from friends and alumni of the division.<\/p>\n

Dickie\u2019s symposium lecture focused on quilting as an example of theory and practice of occupation. Dickie\u2019s background in anthropology led her to conduct an ethnography on quilting as an occupation. Her research found that occupations are situated among social, economic, political, and environmental elements. During the lecture, she used quilting as an example to illustrate how theory and practice are deeply intertwined in the study of occupation and practice of occupational therapy. Dickie likened the act of quilting to studying occupation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t know or understand occupation very well,\u201d Dickie said. \u201cThis may be because occupation is so ordinary, something we learn without knowing we\u2019re learning it. Occupations are both
\nordinary and extraordinary, mundane and special, easy-to-learn, and incredibly complex.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s a great honor to be asked back to UNC to give this lecture,\u201d Dickie said. \u201cI knew Marlys Mitchell well before I came to North Carolina through her reputation and leadership roles.\u201d<\/p>\n

Caroline Harkins McCarty, PhD, OTR\/L and postdoctoral research fellow, said Dickie\u2019s integration of quilting and occupation was beautifully illustrated. \u201cIt highlighted the ways that learning and community can be created through shared engagement in occupation. I particularly appreciated her examples of ways that basic science can expand our perspectives and challenge our assumptions about how occupations are learned.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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