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ERIC Number: EJ517374
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1995
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ISSN: ISSN-0260-6917
Developing the Sociology of Health in Nurse Education: Towards a More Critical Curriculum--Part I: Andragogy and Sociology in Project 2000. Part 2: Linking Methodology and Epistemology.
Balsamo, David; Martin, Ian S.
Nurse Education Today, v15 n6 p427-38 Dec 1995
Suggests that andragogy is ill defined and the nature of sociological theory in nursing education is too undeveloped to produce a "knowledgeable doer," a qualitatively different kind of nurse practitioner. Proposes a critical health curriculum using student-centered learning and critical theory. (SK)
Descriptors: Andragogy, Critical Theory, Curriculum Development, Epistemology, Health, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing Education, Sociology, Theories, Theory Practice Relationship
Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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