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Workshop
(in total 5 hours)
This workshop explores experiences from the International Collaboration
project with focus on integrating theory and practice in Nursing
Education trough experiential learning such as educational drama and
case methodology. The gap between theory and practice is a well-known
international problem within Nursing Education. This has consequences
for the students learning as it influences their ability to integrate
theory and practice in a meaningful and reflective way. This problematic
condition requires suitable pedagogical methods in Nursing Education.
Participants in this workshop will experience how drama and case
methodology can be used as pedagogical tools to integrate theory,
practice and student centred learning in Nursing Education.
Educational Drama
Drama means an approach to learning that is integrating feelings,
thoughts and actions. It is a mode of learning through the students’
active identification with fictive roles and lived situations from
nursing practice. The nature of drama might be defined as the dynamic
embodiment of events involving human beings. Drama is not about public
performance but is a process that involves the participants in mutual
interactions. Drama includes group activity in fictional role-play,
where the participants can learn to explore caring issues, events and
relationships. Drama provides the possibilities to advise students on
direct life experiences in relation to their actual caring praxis and
thus to make the patient perspective as well as caring science knowledge
visible.
Case methodology
Case methodology involves a model of facilitating discussions in which
the students develop analyses of a situation, often through
collaborative work, role-play, and intensive discussions, debate and
dialogue. In case learning, students encounter the problem before they
create the structure to solve it; the method is basically inductive and
experiential. The problems that cases present are subtle, complex, and
persistent; they have no easy, definite or correct solutions. The Case
method encourages the students to see the problem from a direct action
perspective rather than analyze it from a distance.
Facilitators Biography
Professor Margret Lepp (RN, PhD) has an international reputation in
drama in education and applied theatre in professional health care
education. For over twenty years she has involved drama in her work as a
researcher and consultant involving students, nurses and teachers of
nursing, as well as schoolteachers. She was a key researcher in the
international DRACON (Drama and Conflict Management) project between
1994-2005. She was Special Interest Group leader at the IDEA conference
in 2001 and 2004. She is the co-author of “Drama for Life. Stories of
Adult Learning and Empowerment”.
Director of Clinical Education Gunilla Length
Persson (RN, MSc.) is responsible for the planning, organization and
strategic work related to students clinical education. She is also a
link between the faculty and hospital. She has been responsible for
developing and implementing three Educational wards in the Southern
Alvsborg Hospital in collaboration with the University College of Borås,
with focus on student centered learning. Since 1997 she has been
involved in the Collaborative International Nursing project between
Jordan and Sweden, with focus on integrating theory and practice in
nursing education through drama in education and case methodology
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