The hallmark text for nursing faculty seeking to promote the transformative teaching of Caring Science,Creating a Caring Science Curriculum: A Relational Emancipatory Pedagogy for Nursing reflects theparamount scholarship of Caring Science educators. This second edition intertwines visionary thinking withblueprints, exemplars, and dynamic direction for the application of fundamental principles. It goes beyondthe conventional by offering a model that serves as an emancipatory, ethical-philosophical, educational, andpedagogical learning guide for both teachers and students.Divided into five units, the text addresses the history of the caring curriculum revolution and its powerfulpresence within nursing. Unit I lays the foundation for a Caring Science curriculum. Unit II introducesintellectual and strategic blueprints for caring-based education, including action-oriented approachesfor faculty-student relations, teaching/learning skills, pedagogical practices, critical-reflective-creativeapproaches to evolving human consciousness, and power relation dynamics. Unit III addresses curriculumstructure and design, the evolution of a caring-based college of nursing, caring in advanced practice education,and the development of caring consciousness in nurse leaders. It also features real-world exemplars of CaringScience curricula. Unit IV includes an alternative approach to clinical and course-based evaluation, and thetext concludes with an exploration of the future of the Caring Science curriculum as a way of emancipatingthe human spirit. Each chapter is structured to maximize engagement with reflective exercises and learningactivities that encourage the integration of theory and practice into the learning process.
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