Humanizing Nursing Education: Implementing Caring Science in Teaching Practices

By renowned scholars Chantal Cara PhD RN FAAN FCAN, Marcia Hills PhD RN FAAN FCAN, and Jean Watson PhD RN AHN-BC FAAN LL-AAN, this groundbreaking book provides a comprehensive guide to incorporating human caring into nursing education.

Grounded in the belief that caring science can humanize nursing education, this book offers a wealth of examples and specific guidelines for translating human caring into teaching practices. The authors emphasize the importance of establishing authentic caring pedagogical relationships between teachers and students, and provide practical strategies for infusing the learning environment with caring practices.

The Need for a Paradigm Shift in Nursing Education

Traditional biomedical and behavioral paradigms in nursing education often overlook the importance of human caring. This book offers an antidote to this dominant approach, providing a framework for implementing human caring ethics, ontology, and epistemology throughout the teaching-learning community.

Transforming Teaching Practices with Caring Science

The book includes pragmatic examples from administrators, teachers, and students, illustrating the value of a humanitarian caring science paradigm for nursing education and caring praxis. Through reflective practice exercises, nurse teachers can enhance their caring pedagogical relationships with students, while guided caring artistic activities promote ways of knowing, doing, being, and becoming in nursing education.

Key Features and Benefits

• Delivers an internationally renowned scholar’s perspective on teaching grounded in human caring
• Includes exemplars of educators’ lived teaching experiences guided by their caring pedagogical praxis
• Provides examples of students’ lived learning experiences within a caring-teaching environment
• Offers reflective practice exercises for nurse teachers to enhance their caring pedagogical relationships with students
• Includes guided caring artistic activities to promote ways of knowing, doing, being, and becoming in nursing education

Published by Springer Publishing Company, this 218-page book is a valuable resource for nurse educators and administrators seeking to transform their teaching practices and create a more caring and compassionate learning environment.

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