Unit I- Definition of Terms, Education and Other Terminologies used in Education

Master Plan

Subject: Principles of Education and Nursing Education

Topic: Unit I- Historical Development of Nursing

Education

Date: September 7th, 2016

Venue: B.Sc. Nursing 4th year class

Time: 1 hour
No. of participants: 30
Level of participants: B.Sc. Nursing 4th year students.
Teaching/ learning resources: Powerpoint slides, white board, Blackboard

Teaching / learning method:Structured Integrated Session

Supervised by: Additional Prof. Nirmala Pokharel.

Presented by: Ms. Shweta Upadhyay

General Objective: At the end of the interactive session, the students will be able to define the
terms, education and other terminologies used in Nursing Education.
Specific Objectives: At the end of the interactive session, the students will be able to:
Describe the evolution of the word education.
Define education.
Define nursing education
Relate the various terms used in nursing education.

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S.N. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES CONTENTS TIME TEACHING TEACHING EVALUATION

LEARNING LEARNING
METHOD MEDIA
At the end of this session, the
students will be able to:
Self- introduction 10 min
What is educarion?

Topic introduction Where is education

important?
Objectives -
Why is education
Pretest important in Nursing

1. Describe the evolution of the Evolution of the word education. 3 min Structured Power point Slides
Where is the word
word education. Interactive education derived from?
Teaching

2. Definition of education. 3 Min Structured Power point Slides

What is education?
Define education. Interactive
Teaching
3.
Define nursing education Definition of nursing education. 5 Min
Structured
Interactive
Power point Slides
What is nursing education?
Teaching
4. Relate the various terms used Terminologies used in nursing
in nursing education. education. 35 Min Structured
Power point Slides,
What are the factors that
reduce the chance of a
Attitude
Interactive
Teaching White Board spontaneous conception?
Behaviourism
Cognition
Cognitive
Cognitivism
Conditioning
Development
Evaluation
Growth
Halo Effect
Horn Effect
Knowledge
Learning
Learning Resources
Lesson Plan
Maturation
Microteaching
Motivational Theories
Motivation
Needs
Objectivity
Perception
Personal Bias
Principles
Reinforcement
Reliability
Response
Skill
Stimuli
Teaching
Teaching Method
Theory
Validity

5.
Summary 4 min Discussion What is learning?
White Board
What is teaching?
What is theory?
What is development?

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MEANING OF EDUCATION

The term education has its origin in the Latin words educere, educatum & educare.
Educere means to lead out, suggesting from darkness to light or to draw out emplying
bringing out the innate capabilities of the child (person) through the growth in it.
Educatum means the act of teaching or training.
Educare means to bring up , to nourish or to train.
Simply, Education means the process of gaining knowledge , inculcating forms of proper
conduct and acquiring technical competency.
It includes the development o skills along with the achievement of ones physical , mental
and social development.
DEFINITION OF EDUCATION

o Education is the process of changing the behaviour pattern of the people

-Ralph Tyler.

o Education means the training for the country & love for the nation.
-Chanakya

o Education is realization of self

-Shankaracharya

o Education is an all-round drawing out of the best in child & man-body, mind & spirit.
-Mahatma Gandhi

DEFINITION OF NURSING EDUCATION

Nursing education is a professional education which is consciously & systematically planned &
implemented through instruction & discipline & aims the harmonious development of the
physical, intellectual, social, emotional, spiritual & aesthetic powers or abilities of the students in
order to tender professional nursing care to people of all ages, in all phases of health & illness, in
a variety of setting, in the best or highest possible manner.

TERMINOLOGIES USED IN NURSING EDUCATION

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ATTITUDE
It is a tendency to behave or respond in a certain way.

BEHAVIOURISM:
It includes those theories that are concerned with the observable behavior.

COGNITION:
It is concerned with thinking ability of a man.

COGNITIVE:
It is associated with thinking or cognition.

COGNITIVISM
It is the theory that deals with the organization of knowledge, information processing and
decision making behavior.

CONDITIONING:
It is the act of creating an environment or stimulus that leads to change in behaviour or
learning.

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DEVELOPMENT:
It refers to the total process of development of an individuals capacity to adapt to his/her
environment and includes the term growth, maturation, and learning.

EVALUATION:
It is a systematic process of determining the extent to which the students have achieved the
instructional objectives.

GROWTH:
It refers to the quantitative changes in persons physique such as increase in height, weight, etc.

HALO EFFECT:
It is an error when the evaluators general impression of the student influences how s/he rates
him on individual characteristics.

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HORN EFFECT:
It is an error in which the evaluator favours the lower end of rating scale continuum to rate the
learner.

KNOWLEDGE:
It is acquaintance with facts and range of information and awareness and understanding of
things.

LEARNING:
It refers to the changes that result from experiences than from natural process.

LEARNING RESOURCES:
It is defined as those concrete educational materials or communication media employed by the
teacher to facilitate teaching-learning interactions both in clinical and classroom situations.

LESSON PLAN:
It involves defining the objectives, selecting nad arranging the subject matter, determining the
methods of procedure (teaching) and use of learning resources.

MATURATION:
It refers to the changes that results from a natural physiological process that are reflected in
increased competition rather than to mere psychological change.

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MICROTEACHING:
It refers to a teacher education technique which allows teacher to apply well-defined teaching
skills to a carefully prepared lesson in a planned series of five to ten minutes encounters
with a small group of real classroom students, often with the opportunity to observe the
performance on videotapes.

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MOTIVATIONAL THEORIES:
It deals with the questions of why we behave by attempting to identify th particular conditions
that instigate behavior or direct it.

MOTIVATION:
It is something that acts as a drive to prompt, compel and energize an individual to act or
behave in a particular way to achieve certain goal or purpose.

NEEDS:
They are general wants or desires that are created by the certain eficiencies felt by the person.

OBJECTIVITY:
It refers to the extent to which several competent examiners agree on what constitutes an
acceptable level of performance.

PERCEPTION:
It is the cognitive process by which a person receives the information from the environment,
organizes it and obtains the meaning from it.

PERSONAL BIAS:

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It results from the evaluators natural tendency to rate all the students at approximately at the
same positions on the scale.

PRINCIPLES:
It is the statement that explains a number of related phenomena which serves as guides to
action or it is a form of generalization that implies action.

REINFORCEMENT:
It is the act of strengthening the bond that exists between stimulus and response so as to
enhance learning by modifying the behavior.

RELIABILITY :
It tells how consistent the test score or evaluation results are from the one measure to another.

RESPONSE:
It is the behavior itself exhibited by the person as a result of interacting with the stimuli that
bring changes in her/his behavior.

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SKILL
It is the application of knowledge and experience to develop cognitive, psychomotor and
communication and interpersonal abilities.

STIMULI:
It is that constraint in the form of object, symbol, or event that an individual is capable of
seeing and perceiving; which can lead them through the changes that occur in the cognitive
structures.

TEACHING:
It is that activities that allow teacher to help students to learn.

TEACHING METHOD:
Teaching Method refers to the type of methods and techniques that is employed by the teacher
during her/his teaching acts in order to meet the educational objectives.

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THEORY
It is a speculative idea or plan as how something might be done or it is that branch of an art or
science that consists of knowledge of the principles and methods rather than practice.

VALIDITY:
It is defined as the extent to which the test instrument is measuring that it actually intended to
measure.

Summary:

Education is derived from the Latin word Latin words educere, educatum & educare. Education
is the process of changing the behavior pattern of the people. Nursing education is a professional
education which is consciously & systematically planned & implemented through instruction &
discipline & aims the harmonious development of the physical, intellectual, social, emotional,
spiritual & aesthetic powers or abilities of the students in order to tender professional nursing
care to people of all ages, in all phases of health & illness, in a variety of setting, in the best or
highest possible manner. Various terminologies used in nursing education is important to
understand and practice education by nurses.

References:

1. Singh Indira, Essentials of Education. Hisi offset printers pvt.Ltd.Jamal, kathmandu . 5th
edition

2. Neeraja KP. Text book of Nursing Education. Jaypee Brothers New Delhi.2003

3. Sankaranarayanan B, Sindhu B. Learning and teaching nursing. Jaypee. 4th edition.

4. Sudha R. Nursing education principles and concepts. Jaypee. 1st edition 2013

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