This text offers nurse educators a comprehensive conceptual and practical introduction to student-centered pedagogies and their classroom and clinical applications. The book examines the complexities of teaching and learning nursing, explains the theoretical foundations of student-centered learning, describes various methods and models for student-centered learning in nursing, and explores the issues and challenges of constructing nursing curricula and implementing student-centered pedagogies. Practical examples of learning activities are presented throughout the book in chapter boxes.
Doody Review Services Reviewer: Mary Allen Carey, PhD(University of Oklahoma College of Nursing)
Description: This is a guide for nurse educators to creating a productive learning environment for students.
Purpose: It offers nurse educators a comprehensive and practical introduction to student-centered teaching methods and their classroom and clinical applications.
Audience: The audience is nurse educators.
Features: The authors examine the complexities of teaching and learning nursing, explain the theoretical foundations of student-centered learning, describe models for student-centered learning in nursing, and explore the issues involved in constructing nursing curricula and implementing student-centered teaching strategies.
Assessment: This is a good quality book written and reviewed by an impressive list of educators. The practical examples of learning activities presented throughout the book in highlighted boxes are an especially valuable feature.

Young, Lynne E; Paterson, Barbara L

Raven Press, Limited

United States, United States of America

Philadelphia, cop. 2007

February 2006

1, PS, 2006

Includes bibliographical references and index.

xxviii, 600 p. : 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
Teaching nursing: theories and concepts -- Student-centered teaching in nursing: from rote to active learning / Lynne E. Young and Bruce Maxwell -- Decision making in nursing education: a model to support student-centered learning / Lynne E. Young ... [et al.] -- Perspectives on teaching: discovering biases / Daniel D. Pratt and Barbara L. Paterson -- Learning styles: maps, myths, or masks? / Barbara L. Paterson and Daniel D. Pratt -- From filling a bucket to lighting a fire: aligning nursing education and nursing practice / Helen Brown and Gweneth Hartrick Doane -- Theories and concepts to guide distance education using student-centered approaches / Victoria S. Murrell ... [et al.] -- Methods and approaches to student-centered learning in nursing -- Beyond case studies in practice education: creating capacities for ethical knowledge through story and narrative / Helen Brown and Patricia Rodney -- Story-based learning: blending content and process to learn nursing / Lynne E. Young -- Teaching the McGill model of nursing and client-centered care: collaborative strategies for staff education and development / Catherine Pugnaire-Gros and Lynne E. Young -- Context-based learning / Beverly Williams and Rene A. Day -- Tutoring problem-based learning: a model for student-centered teaching / Angela Wolff
Lectures for active learning in nursing education / Marilyn H. Oermann -- Models and strategies for teaching by distance education using student-centered approaches / Cynthia K. Russell ... [et al.] -- Constructing nursing curricula: challenges and issues -- Historical influences of nursing curriculum / Jo Ellen Dattilo and M. Kathleen Brewer -- Conceptualizing the purpose of nursing: philosophical challenges in creating meaningful theoretical learning experiences / Sally Thorne -- Aftermath of the curriculum revolution: what did we overthrow? / Mary Ellen Purkis -- Knowledge and knowing made manifest: curriculum process in student-centered learning / Carol Jillings and Kathy O'Flynn-Magee -- Preceptorship pathways for the senior undergraduate nursing student / Olive J. Yonge and Florence Myrick -- Living curricular concepts: opening pedagogical spaces / Anne Bruce -- Student-centered teaching: challenges and issues for faculty -- Racing around the classroom margins: race, racism, and teaching nursing / Colleen Varcoe and Janice McCormick -- Barriers to student-centered teaching: overcoming institutional and attitudinal obstacles / Carol Jillings -- Challenges, issues, and barriers to student-centered approaches in distance education / W. Dean Care ... [et al.] -- Demonstrating the scholarship of teaching: a sample course portfolio / Beverly Williams -- Toward a new future -- Career development: what new faculty members need to know, see, and do / Janet L. Storch -- Musings: reflecting on the future of nursing education / Barbara L. Paterson

Creation of an effective learning environment is one of the principal challenges facing nurse educators. Whether you're designing a curriculum that best presents the essential concepts of client-centered care...or preparing students for the career challenges ahead...you need a resource that helps you put the fundamentals of nursing education into practice.Using straightforward language and a reader-friendly format, this book will help you provide today's diverse student population with the skills they need to become creative, critical, and cooperative problem solvers.

2024-07-01