title: Nursing science as human science: the new world and human becoming.
abstract: The human science perspective of the theory of human becoming holds intrinsic characteristics conducive to permeating teaching-learning in the 21st century. This column focuses on the challenges involved in the teaching-learning of nursing science as a human science, particularly from a human becoming perspective. Moving from a medical model of studying disease processes as the foundation for nursing education, to a nursing model of understanding the meaning of unitary lived experiences, poses challenges for both faculty and students in today's nursing world. These challenges include: explicating the unitary nature of humankind, living the responsibility of expressing new thought, perceiving teaching-learning as engaging community; and visioning nursing leadership as a transformative presence in change.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD 57197, USA. bunkers@inst.augie.edu
authors.forename: Sandra Schmidt
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Bunkers
mesh_terms: D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000193:education; D004506:Education, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing; D011788:Quality of Life; D012942:Social Sciences; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States