title: Transforming pedagogy in nursing education: a caring learning environment for adult students.
abstract: This article is an account of a project involving nursing faculty and adult learners. Their purpose was to generate interactive and collaborative pedagogies. Reflection and dialogue were used to explore how the educational experience can be transformed into an engaging and caring learning environment for adult students. Principles derived from humanistic nursing and caring, reflection, and teaching and learning guided this project.
authors.affiliation: State University of New York Institute of Technology, School of Nursing and Health Systems, Utica, USA. fegb@sunyit.edu
authors.forename: Esther G
authors.initials: EG
authors.lastname: Bankert
authors.forename: Victoria V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Kozel
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003142:Communication; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D004645:Empathy; D005181:Faculty, Nursing; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006808:Humanism; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D017145:Models, Educational; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009042:Motivation; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D015279:Organizational Culture; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing; D011209:Power, Psychological; D011588:Psychology, Educational; D012944:Social Support; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*