Features of Teaching Nursing:

• 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
• 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.

Contents

Teaching Nursing: Theories and Concepts

1. Student-centered teaching in nursing: from rote to active learning
2. Decision making in nursing education: a model to upport student-centered learning
3. Perspectives on Teaching: discovering BIASes
4. Learning styles: maps, myths, or masks?
5. From filling a bucket to lighting a fire: aligning nursing education and nursing practice
6. Theories and concepts to guide distance education using student-centered approaches

Methods and Approaches to Student-Centered Learning in Nursing

7. Beyond case studies in practice education
8. Story-based learning
9. Teaching the McGill model of nursing and client-centered care
10. Context-based learning
11. Tutoring problem-based learning
12. Lectures for active learning in nursing education
13. Models and strategies for teaching by distance education using student-centered approaches

Constructing Nursing Curricula: Challenges and Issues

14. Historical influences of nursing curriculum
15. Conceptualizing the purpose of nursing
16. Aftermath of the curriculum revolution
17. Knowledge and knowing made manifest
18. Preceptorship pathways for the senior undergraduate nursing student
19. Living curricular concepts

Student-Centered Teaching: Challenges and issues for Faculty

20. Racing around the classrooom margins
21. Barriers to student-centered teaching
22. Challenges, issues, and barriers to student-centered approaches in distance education
23. Demonstrating the scholarship of teaching

Toward a New Future

24. Career development
25. Musings

Glossary
Sample lesson plan
Sample course outline
Index

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