A descriptive inquiry into the educational focus of a nursing college

• Main Author: Mouton, Chautnette
• Other Authors: Van der Wal, Dirk Mostert
• Format: Others
• Language: en
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Criteria for Teacher-Student Interactions; Criteria for Selecting and Devising Learning Experiences; Educational Focus; Humanistic-Educative-Caring Curriculum Paradigm; Learner Maturity Continuum; Nursing College; Stimulus-Response Curriculum Paradigm; Training-Education Continuum; Typology of Learning; 610.730711; Nursing > Study and teaching (Higher education) > Evaluation
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17525

Text in English === The question the researcher set out to answer during this research study was: "What is the Educational Focus of a Nursing College, when viewed within Bevis and Watson's Humanistic·Educative-Caring Curriculum Paradigm versus a Stimulus-Response Curriculum Paradigm?" To answer this question, an exploratory, descriptive and contextual study was undertaken. The population consisted of tutors employed at a College of Nursing. From this population a purposive sample was drawn. Data was collected by means of formal, semi-structured interviews and a questionnaire. Content analysis was used to analyse the data. It was found that during the first year of students' education and training, the Educational Focus of the College was on training but during the second year, the focus changed to the transitional phase. The transitional phase is situated between training and education. During the third and fourth year, the focus was also in transition, but the way students learn was at the training phase. === Health Studies === M.A. (Advanced Nursing Sciences)