Book chapter
Awake and Aware: Thinking Constructively about the World of Transformative Learning
Creative Approaches To Health And Social Care Education: Knowing Me, Understanding You?, pp.157-172
Palgrave MacMillan Ltd.
2010
Abstract
Nursing's history is an important, yet overlooked component of the nursing curriculum. History learning offers an opportunity to develop nursing graduates as critical and constructive thinkers with a positive professional identity. An Australian national study of nursing academics conducted in 2008 found that even though participants valued history of nursing teaching, educators have difficulty finding a place for history in the crowded curriculum, due to an over-emphasis on technical skills. The study also found that history of nursing pedagogy is inconsistent and poorly developed, and teaching expertise is unevenly distributed and difficult to access. This paper is an attempt to advance nursing history pedagogy relevant to Australia, by promoting a transformative approach to curriculum design in history learning, considering issues of significance to Australian nursing, and creating exemplar activities.
Details
- Title
- Awake and Aware: Thinking Constructively about the World of Transformative Learning
- Authors
- Margaret McAllister (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Science, Health and Education
- Contributors
- T Warne (Editor)S McAndrew (Editor)
- Publication details
- Creative Approaches To Health And Social Care Education: Knowing Me, Understanding You?, pp.157-172
- Publisher
- Palgrave MacMillan Ltd.
- Date published
- 2010
- ISBN
- 9780230574465
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99449904102621
- Output Type
- Book chapter
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