Subject didactics as a research and development (R & D) area
Currently in the process of construction, subject didactics constitutes a Faculty of Nursing priority area. The Faculty has set up a Subject Didactics Committee, which has its own Resource Group. The Committees mandate is to contribute towards strengthening the quality of the nursing education programmes, and to promote R & D activities. Furthermore, the Committee is to serve as an advisory body for the Dean; and the Committee may on its own accord take the initiative to promote issues or concerns within the area of subject didactics.
The following definition of what the area of subject didactics may include serves as a basis for the work undertaken by the Subject Didactics Resource Group:
Subject didactics consists of all the reflections one may associate with a subject and the teaching of this subject that may lead to increased knowledge about the nature of the subject, the legitimacy of the subject, and increased knowledge about how the subject can be learned, taught and developed (Lorentzen et al. 1998:7/Aase
The promotion of research-based knowledge, insight and understanding of how the subject of nursing is taught, learned and developed is a vitally important part of the tasks undertaken by the Resource Group.
Didactic challenges within the subject(s) of nursing are related to the student, the teacher and supervisor, the clinical placement (practice) supervisor and the external examiner. At the Faculty of Nursing these concerns are covered by the bachelor programme as well as to all the continuing education programmes within nursing, where the legal framework provided by the government (the general plan and regulations for the 3-year training programme in nursing) as well as the curriculum of the different courses will set the parameters, requiring research-based insight into the didactics of the subjects feeding into nursing. Furthermore, the subject didactics related to nursing also take in the actual practices of nursing during clinical placement and as a profession. The objective of the R & D challenge in relation to nursing-subject didactics is to promote a professional attitude towards the practices of the nursing profession.
The students learning process during their clinical placements in the specialist and municipal health services is of great significance. A critical factor is the organisation of the framework conditions for learning during the practical placements a factor that necessitates a scholarly insight into the subject didactics of nursing.
Approaches to the subject didactics of nursing are a matter of how nursing is communicated as a subject and discipline, a matter of the design of the subject of nursing as it is taught to the students.
Responsible for the subject area: Associate Professor Undis Benum
Ongoing R & D projects within subject didactics:Assessing didactical methods connected to learning in theoretical and practice-based courses, and the mutual relationship between them
- Can the PBL group serve as a good starting point for learning in practice-based courses? Associate Professor Eli Johannessen and Assistant Professor Aashild Thorsen
- Acting leads to mastery. Associate Professor Wigdis Sæther
- Conflicts in learning groups (I). A study of students subjective experience of the impact of conflicts on the learning process and on results. Assistant Professor Ingeborg Alexandersen and Associate Professor Øyvind Kvello, Department of Psychology, NTNU
- Conflicts in learning groups (II): A study of students subjective experience and consequences for their conflict handling. Assistant Professor Ingeborg Alexandersen and Associate Professor Øyvind Kvello, Department of Psychology, NTNU
- What kind of learning experiences do student nurses gain by peer- group interaction related to practice within a defined educational programme? Assistant Professor Bjørg Kjønsvik
- Development work on multiple choice question (MCQ) tests in a Bachelor of Nursing education programme covering medical and natural sciences. Assistant Professor Lene Blekken, Lecturer Trond Indergaard, RN, and Assistant Professor Marit Olsen.
- Assessment and Evaluation in Nursing Education: An Inquiry of External Examination in Higher Education. Associate Professor Undis Benum and Assistant Professor Ingeborg Olaug Kamsvåg
Learning in mono-disciplinary/multi-disciplinary practice-based academic projects
- Inter-disciplinary cooperation with the purpose of improving students preparation for working life. Lecturer Tone Almenning
- Competence development- from education to professional practice what does it mean to be an oncology nurse and in which way does competence development take place in the primary health service? Assistant Professor Astrid Bjørnerheim Hynne
Reflection on, and development and adaptation of subject-related ICT
- Videoconferencing in Distance Learning-based Nursing Education 2001-
- Television Stars: Counselling of Problem Based Learning Groups through Videoconferencing in a Distance Learning Based Nursing Bachelor Programme. Paper and presentation, 9th International Congress on Nursing Informatics.
- Distance learning based education - Use of ICT in a nursing bachelor programme. Paper and presentation, 11th International Conference on Technology Supported Learning & Trainining, Online EDUCA, Berlin, November 2005. Assistant Professor
- Decentralised nursing education in the Fosen region, the Neadal valley, the Orkdal region and Røros: Preliminary data analysis of college teachers perception of supervising small groups via videoconferencing. Report, paper and presentation at a national conference, and at international conferences. Lecturer Trond Indergaard, RN, and Assistant Professor Berit Stjern.
- Computer-based examination in a bachelor of nursing education programme using Multiple-Choice-Question tests. Quality improvement. Paper and presentation at a national conference. Assistant Professor Lene Blekken, Lecturer Trond Indergaard, RN, and Assistant Professor Marit Olsen.
Internationalisation
- Internationalisation in practice-based academic courses: Experiences from dealing with student nurses from abroad in relation to cooperation and quality control during practical placement. Assistant Professor Inger Lise Hansen and Lecturer Brith Hanssen
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Sør-Trøndelag University College NO - 7004 Trondheim |
Telephone: +47 73 55 90 00 Fax: +47 73 55 90 51 |
E-mail: postmottak@hist.no |