Tutorial 4: Video Production Sessions

Occupational Transition: Dunedin

The task set was to produce a one-minute video on occupational justice, occupational disruption, occupational transition or occupational deprivation. This group selected occupational transition. We all felt we had similar transitions from our lives in our home-towns to living in Dunedin and attending Polytechnic. We talked about how we could represent our ‘big move’ to the student city and came up with a couple of ideas that would incorporate all of our transitions under the umbrella theme of ‘occupational transition’ but each in our own way. We decided to film each other holding two pieces of paper. The first piece of paper that would be seen would a sentence or phrase that would represent something that we experienced before we came to Dunedin and the second piece would be a sentence or phrase that would represent what we experience now as students or as flatmates or tenants.

Film Name: Occupational Transition to Dunedin

The concept of Occupational Transition is based around the idea that as an individual moves through the different stages of their lives they shift from occupations that they would participate in previously to alternate ones that are part of their new life-stage or lifestyle (Rodger, 2010). Occupational transitions occur as a result of developmental change such as aging or can occur as a response to a particular life event (Rodger, 2010).  These transitions occur at individual, group and societal levels but for the purpose of this video we have focussed on occupational transition at an individual level as a result of developmental change. Participants in this video have experienced occupational transition in moving to live in Dunedin to study in the Bachelor of Occupational Therapy programme. This occupational transition has occurred because these young women have completed schooling at the age of 18 and then all moved to further their tertiary education in Dunedin.

The posters read:

Occupational transition

Transition through life stages

Warm house  - Damp Flat

Alternative Steiner School - Mainstream Tertiary ‘Tech

Country Bumpkin - Big City…. Hello

Mum made my lunch - I make my lunch now

Adventure Capital - Scarfie Land

The End

References:

Rodger, S. (2010). Occupation-centred practice with children: A practical guide for occupational therapists. United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell.