title: Experience-based educational strategies to promote woman-centred midwifery practice.
abstract: This paper discusses the evaluation of educational activities developed and implemented in a tertiary based, pre-endorsement midwifery program in Brisbane, Australia. The development of the experience-based activities outlined was driven by the feminist philosophy of the curriculum and a commitment to helping students develop as woman-centred practitioners. The activities focused on enabling students to hear women's stories of childbearing firsthand and understand these stories from the women's perspective, thus validating personal experience.
authors.affiliation: School of Social Work and Social Policy, University of Queensland, St Lucia 4075. c.brook@social.uq.edu.au
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Brook
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Barnes
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001315:Australia; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000592:standards; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008880:Midwifery / Q000193:education*; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology; D009721:Nurse Midwives / Q000193:education*; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D018802:Patient-Centered Care / Q000379:methods; D011247:Pregnancy; D018794:Problem-Based Learning / Q000379:methods; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology