Nursing education is developing a wide variety of ways to educate for cultural competence that expedites culture-congruent care and effective diversity management in practice. Using a praxis orientation, this article reports research done on an innovative nursing field school during the past four summers on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Learning context emphasizing formation of a collaborative, caring community is created for 6-week immersion learning experiences during which student groups work with the High Plains Oglala Lakota in tribal programs. Triangulated data based on participant observation and student journals, stories, discussions, interviews, academic coursework, and evaluation surveys provide a comprehensive record of complex and multifaceted field school and immersion learning processes. Through collaboration with students, Diekelmann's "Concernful Practices" are tested and adapted for fit as a framework for organizing and examining the field school experience, as well as the practice of health care across cultures.

Feminist Pedagogy: Developing Creative Approaches for Teaching Students of Nursing

Summers of No Return: Transforming Care Through a Nursing Field School

Educating nursing students using Internet technology, in conjunction with case studies, is rewarding for both faculty and the learner The authors describe an Internet journal discussion format used as an adjunct assignment in a senior clinical nursing course. Adapting a traditional teaching strategy such as case studies proved successful online. Results showed students were able to think critically about a clinical situation and recognize the importance of peer communication.

Online critical thinking: a case study analysis.

The traditional testing process often is static and intimidating to students and encourages multiple guessing or rote recall of information. To avoid these problems and encourage student creativity and critical thinking, the author developed a test that solely uses poetry. In this article, she discusses the use of poetry to test nursing knowledge.

The Use of Poetry to Test Nursing Knowledge

Nursing caps to feminist pedagogy: transformation of nursing education

Feminism, nursing and education.

Good Teaching: A Matter of Living the Mystery

This article describes the feminist pedagogical strategies used in a nursing course in the post-RN Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BScN) program, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan. A variety of concepts that have direct relevance for nurses were discussed within small groups. These settings provided the venue for an examination of the issues that nurses, as primarily female, face in a patriarchal Muslim society and an androcentric health care system. Emphasis is on the process used in terms of feminist pedagogical practices and its relationship to feminist theory and critical pedagogy. The five process goals suggested by Schniedewind (1983) formed the basis for an exploration of this relationship through an analysis of the content and practices used in the course. It is demonstrated that the teaching practices advocated by feminist pedagogy hold much promise for nursing education to empower nurses and to make an impact on the health care system.

Feminist Pedagogy: Developing Creative Approaches for Teaching Students of Nursing

Citations

Summers of No Return: Transforming Care Through a Nursing Field School

Online critical thinking: a case study analysis.

The Use of Poetry to Test Nursing Knowledge

Nursing caps to feminist pedagogy: transformation of nursing education

Feminism, nursing and education.

References

Good Teaching: A Matter of Living the Mystery

Feminist pedagogy: a framework for nursing education?

Torch Song Trilogy

The collected poems of Dylan Thomas, 1934-1952