NURS 2000 Lecture Notes - Andragogy, Informed Consent, Animism
11 Apr 2013
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Principles of teaching and learning; incorporating factors influencing the process. Chief factors influencing teaching is the nature of the learner: age (developmental characteristics, literacy, gender, ses (socioeconomic status, educational experience, abilities, culture, developmental characteristics: chronological age versus stage of development. Example: children with chronic illness often are delayed developmentally; an adolescent that suffers a traumatic event may regress developmentally. Rationale: chronological age per se is not a good predictor of learning ability. At any given age, there can be a wide variation in physical, cognitive, and psychosocial variables. Developmental stage acknowledges that human growth and development are sequential, but not always specifically age-related. Developmental stages of childhood: pedagogy is the art and science of helping children learn: infancy and toddlerhood, preschooler, school-aged child, adolescence, infancy and toddlerhood: must focus on teaching parents the need for stimulation, nutrition and to prevent injury. Learning is through sensory experiences and through movement and manipulation of objects.
