Participatory inquiry with a colleague: an innovative faculty development process.
Clinical evaluation is central to the aims of nursing education; however, little has been written about the actual evaluative practices of nurse educators and the sources of influence on those practices. In this article, we describe our experience as co-investigators into the evaluation practices of one of us (J.A.J.) and overview some of the challenges and opportunities of participatory inquiry. We describe how J.A.J.'s involvement in this research project encouraged her to explore her evaluative practices in a meaningful way, which moved her to a place of deeper understanding about her work and transformed her as a nurse educator. As a result of this study, we are convinced of the necessity for a faculty development process whereby colleagues commit to a critical inquiry process focused on identifying each other's evaluative practices and sources of influence on those practices. In addition, schools of nursing can encourage faculty participation in peer development by adopting an expanded view of scholarship in which the disciplined examination of one's evaluative practices is accepted as evidence of the scholarship of teaching.
Mahara
M Star
MS
School of Nursing, University College of the Cariboo, 900 McGill Road, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada V2C 5N3. mahara@cariboo.bc.ca
Jones
Joanne A
JA
D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards*; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000592:standards; D004650:Employee Performance Appraisal / Q000592:standards*; D005181:Faculty, Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D010380:Peer Review / Q000379:methods*; D036301:Qualitative Research; D020377:Self Efficacy; D013192:Staff Development / Q000379:methods*; D013338:Students, Nursing; D013637:Tape Recording; D035502:Trust