Andragogy

Figure 1. 3 Convergence of Interest Model [Modified from Saxton et. al.] (Saxton, 2009). According to the educational experts from over 16 top pharmaceutical companies in Germany, the industry engagement in medical education can be grouped into four categories. a) Industry-provided product specific training b) Industry-provided professional development and medical disease education c) Collaborative partnerships d) Support to third party provided medical education a) Industry-provided…

The Nursing and Midwifery Council (2008 9:45) defines mentoring “as a registrant who has met the outcomes of stage 2, (qualified) facilitates learning, supervises and assesses students in practice settings”. In order to do this effectively, I am going to negotiate learning need by using appropriate strategies to offer guidance, provide feedback to offer support. Working as a Cardiographer in a Cardio-Respiratory department, I am currently mentoring a first year Cardiac Physiology student, to…

Particularly critical for students of color is a climate and culture where students feel welcome to engage. Research from Wood (2014) demonstrated that Black college men were apprehensive to engage in the classroom with faculty for fear of being perceived as academically inferior. In fact, men in his study noted that what some faculty perceived as disengaging behavior was actually angst about being stereotypically viewed as ‘dumb’, ‘unintelligent’, or ‘stupid’. Moreover, faculty members involved…

Education has taken quite a different role in peoples’ lives in the more recent past. While it has always been available to anyone, adults seem to be more of prevalent in the education community with all of the options available. People are able to enhance their professional skills or get additional degrees from a variety of sources. What defines adult learners is a controversial discussion. The Southern Regional Education Board describes adult learners as, “A very diverse group (typically ages…

Introduction: Adult education is defined by “the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)” (Tight, 2002, p. 63) as learning programmes that are designed for many different learning stages and requirements that men and women want to partcipate in throughout their life (Tight, 2002). These learning programmes can range from formal to non-formal “as well as education with a collective social purpose” (Tight, 2002, pp. 63-64). This essay will begin by explaining the purpose of…

This essay will use Gibbs Reflective Cycle (1988) to reflect upon my learning from the facilitating workplace learning module and my teaching session on urinalysis. Bulman and Schutz (2013) updated Gibbs reflective framework stating reflection is a means of making sense of a situation in order to move on, and improving as a practitioner. We cannot learn without reflecting on what we could have developed further. Prior to the taught session I read my professional body’s requirements regarding…

As a young child growing up in Davidson County, North Carolina, I never imagined the person that I have become today. While I did not “hate” school, I was not fond of the experiences that it brought. School was more of a means to an end, than a true quest for knowledge at that early point in my life. Upon graduating from high school, I knew that if I wanted to succeed in life I would need to go to college. However, after a brief experience at Appalachian State University in the early 90’s, I…