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Teaching for clinical reasoning – helping students make the conceptual links
(Informa Healthcare, 2010)
INTRODUCTION:
The paper provides a theoretical framework for understanding how conceptual learning is achieved, and the way in which conceptual understanding influences clinical reasoning and the ability to transfer ...
Perceptions of students and educators on the potential use of mobile devices in an undergraduate nursing module
(AFAHPER-SD, 2014)
Higher education is in the midst of an electronic transformative change cycle attributable to advancements in mobile technology. This transformative process took us from stationary desktop computers to laptop computers and ...
Developing the language of thinking within a classroom community of inquiry: pre-service teachers’ experiences
(Education Association of South Africa, 2012-08)
We argue that the “community of inquiry” approach, using reading materials
modelled on Lipman’s Philosophy for Children programme, is a theoretically justified
and teacher-friendly means of promoting effective thinking ...
Blogging to enhance reflective and collaborative learning
(AFAHPER-SD, 2014)
This study explored the educational benefit and value of blogging by postgraduate nursing students registered for Masters in Nursing Education in order to become professional nurse educators. The researcher assumed that ...
Pursuing a corporate understanding of service-learning in nursing education: a case study
(Unisa press, 2014)
A corporate definition of service-learning (SL) could help to mainstream SL in higher
education institutions (HEIs). Concepts like ‘service-learning’, ‘community engagement’ and ‘community service’ tend to be used ...
Challenges and opportunities related to postgraduate evidence-based practice module using blended learning
(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2011)
The use of information and communications technology (ICT) has become integral to health professions education worldwide. The incorporation of online facilities and maintaining of the face-to-face element make blended ...
‘Your thrust is to understand’ - how academically successful students learn
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2010)
The article sets out to understand how academically successful students learn. Self-regulated learning theory is used as a lens to explicate the learning strategies adopted by a cohort of academically successful dentistry ...
Nurse educators’ experiences and perspectives of incivility among nursing students in a South African school of nursing
(2014)
This study presents a synthesis of the experiences and perspectives of nurse educators regarding uncivil classroom behaviours of nursing students in a school of nursing. Using a descriptive, phenomenological design, 11 ...
Exploring development of leadership capacities in undergraduate nursing students through transformative learning: a narrative review
(AFAHPER-SD, 2014)
Transformative learning (TL) is seen as an instructional reform in health professions education to develop leadership capacities and eventually produce change agents. This article explores the development of leadership ...
Evaluating blogging as a reflective strategy in a service-learning module for undergraduate nursing students
(Africa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance, 2014)
Literature suggests that blogging has the potential to be a transformational technology for teaching and learning. It is claimed that blogging is a useful practice for development of higher-order learning skills, active, ...