Building the Discipline of Nursing Internationally
Course description
Knowledge Production in Nursing and Health(NUR 1082) is an online course that explores nursing knowledge as an academic and social product created in the context of competing historical, political, cultural and economic discourses which shape what is considered nursing knowledge and science in different contexts and places. Students will be requested to work from three standpoints:
- the social and scientific location of their own work;
- nursing international academic perspectives
- global health agendas to achieve health for all as a human right.
The core analytical contribution of this course is to explore the relationships between theoretical and methodological assumptions, academic traditions, and social values in the way nursing knowledge is produced and reproduced in the international scenario.
Course Objectives
The general objective of this course is to prepare nursing PhD students to undertake international academic activities, in particular, research through the understanding that knowledge production is a contextual endeavour.
The specific objectives of this course are to:
- introduce nursing PhD students to research paradigms and academic traditions in knowledge production from distinct countries
- facilitate students' identification of their research projects' ontological and epistemological, and methodological assumptions
- explore the articulation between theory, methodology, and values in research
- promote a critical understanding of historical, cultural, and political traditions in the way knowledge is produced and analysed in different academic environments
- foster students' critical thinking in relation to global trends in nursing and health research and to confront professional and population health research agendas
- enhance students writing and oral skills for international collaboration
Teaching and Learning Methods
There will be 12 online "meetings" during one term. Students are expected to "attend" all classes and to actively participate in the online discussions and prepare for each class by doing the readings assigned. The classes will be asynchronistic and will include presentations and group discussions.