scholarly journals Simulated human patients and patient-centredness: The uncanny hybridity of nursing education, technology, and learning to care

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. e12157
Author(s):  
Aileen V. Ireland
2018 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Willinsky

The title of Larry Cuban’s latest insightful and timely book, his third on education technology over a 30-year period, takes on a certain poignancy after the recent Parkland, Florida, school shooting of February 2018, another in a series of tragic losses of life in American schools. Cuban, who is professor emeritus at Stanford University, draws his title from a line by the great explorer of classroom life Philip Jackson, who notes that the course of educational progress emulates butterflies rather than bullets. Cuban follows that butterfly path around a series of Silicon Valley schools situated among the California poppies. He alights on the classrooms of 41 exemplary teachers across 12 charter and public schools and six districts. In each case, he follows the course of a single lesson, closely observing how the teachers integrate technology into their teaching, after which he asks them about the difference that technology makes for their teaching. Download the review and read more...


2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-318
Author(s):  
Aileen Ireland

The reproduction of the human form has been a universal practice amongst human ecologies for millennia. Over the past 200 years, popular culture has considered the imaginary consequences of the danger to humanity and human-ness of replicating the autonomous human form too faithfully. Today, the seductive allure of technologically advanced simulated human bodies and advances in robotics and artificial intelligence has brought us closer to facing this possibility. Alongside the simultaneous aversion and fascination of the possibility that autonomous simulated human forms may become indistinguishable from human beings is the deep-rooted uncanniness of the automaton in its strange familiarity – not only to ourselves but to our pleasant childhood imaginings of playing with dolls. As such, simulated human bodies are often enrolled in medical and nursing education models with the assumption that making the simulation teaching spaces seem as close to clinical spaces as possible will allow students to practise potentially harmful clinical skills without causing any harm to human patients. However similar the simulated human bodies may appear to a living, breathing human, a tension between the embodiment of particularly human attributes and their replication persists. How can computerized human patient simulators be enrolled to teach people to develop the necessary attributes of compassion and empathy when caring for human beings? This article explores the uncanny ecologies of simulated human patients in nursing education by presenting a posthuman analysis of the practices of nurse educators as they enrol these digital objects in their teaching. Guided by a selection of heuristics offered as a mode of interviewing digital objects, the analysis enrolled ‘Gathering Anecdotes’ and ‘Unravelling Translations’ to attune to the ways in which these uncanny posthuman assemblages become powerful modes of knowing to mobilize learning about human attributes within uncanny posthuman ecologies.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Koko Wahyu Tarnoto

Background: The development of information technology has an impact on the world of education in terms of learning systems. E-Learning (Electronic learning) is a webbased virtual education system that has the purpose of helping the process of teaching and learning activities. The method used in this literature study is the type of nonsystematic review. Method: The author searches for the electronic database PROQUEST, Science Direct, Elsevier, BMJ, Google Scholar and PubMed. The author also uses several search keywords namely "Virtual Learning", "Based Learning Avatar", "Nursing Education", Interactive Real Virtual Learning "," IPE "," IPC "," Interprofesional Collaboration "," Interprofessional Education "," Simulation Skills "by using boolean" AND. Results :"The author uses inclusion and exclusion criteria in conducting filtering articles published in 2013-2018. Conclusion:From the results It is known that E-learning and its various applications that have been applied in the world of nursing education can be used as alternatives in offering learning many benefits: Hope in the future e-learning will become more effective, along with the development of technology and learning methods used


2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-86
Author(s):  
Pascale Sardin

This paper focuses on textual variants in Come and Go, Va-et-vient and Kommen und Gehen and considers these variants as thresholds (Genette, 1997) into these works. This paper aims to show how Beckett's self-translating process, which was prolonged and complicated in the case of his plays when he directed them himself, produces a number of possible textual confusions, but also how these complications constitute insight into the Beckettian text. Indeed variants and rewritings point to moments in the writing and rewriting process when Beckett met ‘resistant vitalities’ mentioned by George Steiner in After Babel (1975). To illustrate this, I study Beckett's first ‘dramaticule’, Come and Go, by examining its pre-texts, the French translation, and Beckett's production notebooks for Kommen und Gehen. In these texts, I explore the motifs of death and ocular anxiety, as studied by Freud in his famous paper on ‘The Uncanny.’ I show how the Freudian uncanny actually reveals the parodic archaism of Beckett's drama, as a parallel is drawn between the structure of Beckett's play and Greek tragedy. Beckett's sometimes ‘messy’ rewritings in Come and Go, Va-et-vient and Kommen und Gehen served the performing intuitive perception in us of death, an issue explored here through the trope of femininity. Furthermore, comparing Beckett's Come and Go and Va-et-vient makes it easier to see Beckett progressing towards what Deleuze called a ‘theatre of metamorphoses and permutations’ in Difference and Repetition – a monograph published in France the very year Come and Go was first produced (1966).


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