Aim and Content

Aim:

• The students will obtain insight into the praxeology as a concept and a research tradition based on basic scientific reading, philofophys of science and methodological analysis related to concrete empirical studies.

Content:

• About nursing in a historical perspective- pratical, clinical and the clinical eye
• Nursing in a scientific perspective
• What is a subject/a scientific discipline?
• Art, practical theories and science?
• Theory and philosophy in, for and about practice
• Understanding and explanation ¿ two sides of the same coins

Breaking with everyday language and the construction of the object of science

Learning Outcomes

After completing the course, the students should be able to:

• critically reflect the development and the modern structuring of the medical and nursing practices, clinic and the clinal eye historically and its implications of this for the manifestation of the semi-professions¿
• use central concepts and theoretical tools which is related to nursing as a scientific/theoretical discipline and its related studies of caring, nursing, health and medicine
• critically judge and reflect on the research and methodological problems raised which are related to the praxeological research tradition
• use analytic abilities and work independent both oral and in written

build up attitudes related to different philosophical, practical and scientific traditions contexts, areas, and constraints and roles which in society relates to caring, nursing, health and medicine

Course offered (semester)

Spring

Course Unit Level

Master

Pre-requirements

The subject is open for all interested student, max 30 participants, Students enrolled at the master programme in health Science has 1. priority and among the student those who have already passed HEL310 and HEL320 or the equivalent.

Teaching Methods

Lectures

Seminar

Group work with textreadings

Presentations of the theoretical litteratur and its relation to the planned research thesis oral

Presentation of individual read theoretical literature in writing

Individual homework

Total: 40 hours per week for 3.5 weeks

Assessment methods

The students will write a final essay consisting of an individual text based on the contents of the course.

Grading Scale

Grading scale A-F

Course Unit Evaluation

The course will have a summative course evaluation with central questions that will be answered orally or written.