Papers by Allan de Guzman
Pharmacy Education, 2017
Prevailing literature presented how adjustment to college and its domains has been progressively ... more Prevailing literature presented how adjustment to college and its domains has been progressively explored in higher education. However, studies supported by Turner’s liminality in exploring undergraduate students’ adjustment in pharmacy education remains a research blank spot. This paper aimed to explore the processes describing how pharmacy students adjust to their college education. Semi-structured interviews and essay writing were conducted to gather pertinent data and the transcripts were analysed using the Straussian approach of grounded theory. In-depth analysis of field texts generated The Roadmap Model of Student Adjustment which represents the phases of starting-off (initial adjustments in academic demands, socialisation, emotions), strategising (strategies to improve academic performance, socialise and participate, support emotions), and settling (progress in academics, expansion in one’s connections, developed attitudes and university attachment). Findings of this paper c...
This bibliometric study aimed to quantitatively analyze higher education publication outputs anch... more This bibliometric study aimed to quantitatively analyze higher education publication outputs anchored on liminality or rites of passage model. The literature search employed eight electronic databases and only those articles published from January 1997 to April 2017 utilizing the concept of liminality, liminal space, or rites of passage in describing higher education students’ experiences were extracted. Out of 5,494 search items screened, only 52 full-length articles met the eligibility criteria. Additional relevant literature(n=17) were also obtained resulting to 69 included papers. Thirteen articles were printed in 2009 and ‘Innovations in Education and Teaching International’ and ‘Nurse Education in Practice’ journals have issued seven and five papers, respectively. An average of 2.5 authors per article was present and 55 authors were affiliated to institutions in United Kingdom. Publications were mostly empirical (n=55) and employed qualitative approach (n=42). Findings of this...
Development of student professionalism in both academic and experiential learning programs has be... more Development of student professionalism in both academic and experiential learning programs has been one of the focal points in pharmacy education. Evidently, its quantitative assessment has received considerable attention in pharmacy literature while few articles dealt on describing it as an experienced phenomenon. The purpose of this phenomenological inquiry is to capture undergraduate pharmacy students’ lived experiences of professionalism while in the liminal state. Participants’ accounts of learning experiences from academic and practice environments were obtained during individual face-to-face interviews which focused on essence questions on professional knowledge, skills, and attitudes. Data were subjected to phenomenological reduction using the Colaizzi’s method and the themes of understanding, embracing, and embodying expectations emerged. Significant findings of this study can assist curriculum experts and clinical preceptors in designing professional courses and expe...
The Australian Educational Researcher, 2015
Ethical decision-making in school administration has received considerable attention in education... more Ethical decision-making in school administration has received considerable attention in educational leadership literature. However, most research has focused on principals working in secondary school settings while studies that explore ethical reasoning processes of academic deans have been significantly few. This qualitative study aims to describe the ethical decision-making processes employed by a select group of Filipino college deans in solving ethical dilemmas using the ethical paradigms proposed in the works of Starratt (Educ Adm Q 27:185-202, 1991) and Shapiro and Stefkovich (Ethical leadership and decisionmaking in education: applying theoretical perspectives to complex dilemmas, 2005) as frameworks for the analysis. Data was gathered using semi-structured interviews and field text was analyzed using deductive thematic analysis. Findings of this study show that majority of the deans chose to share ethical dilemmas involving students and teachers. The findings also show the ethical frameworks of care, justice, and profession as the dominant paradigms utilized by Filipino deans and their preference for adopting multiple ethical frameworks when making their decisions. Most of the ethical dilemmas which the deans narrated relate to their tasks of academic administration such as monitoring student performance, faculty evaluation and maintaining school discipline. Interestingly, only a few dilemmas involving university administrators were expressed, and dilemmas that refer to broader societal issues usually associated with school administrators' utilization of the ethic of critique were also significantly left out in the narratives of this study. This paper intends to contribute to current literature by expanding research to administrators working in the context of higher education in the Philippine setting. The findings of this study could serve as knowledge base in designing ethics courses to enhance educational leaders' ethical decision-making skills. The study also provides useful 
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Papers by Allan de Guzman