Courses: SYKVIT303 Praxeologisk teori og praxeologisk forskning - Autumn 2017
Level of Study
Master
Language of Instruction
Norwegian
Teaching semester
Spring
Objectives and Content
Aim:
- The students will obtain insight into the praxeology as a concept and a research tradition based on basic scientific reading, philofophys of science and methodological analysis related to concrete empirical studies.
Content:
- About nursing in a historical perspective- pratical, clinical and the clinical eye
- Nursing in a scientific perspective
- What is a subject/a scientific discipline?
- Art, practical theories and science?
- Theory and philosophy in, for and about practice
- Understanding and explanation ¿ two sides of the same coins
Breaking with everyday language and the construction of the object of science
Learning Outcomes
After completing the course, the students should be able to:
- critically reflect the development and the modern structuring of the medical and nursing practices, clinic and the clinal eye historically and its implications of this for the manifestation of the semi-professions¿
- use central concepts and theoretical tools which is related to nursing as a scientific/theoretical discipline and its related studies of caring, nursing, health and medicine
- critically judge and reflect on the research and methodological problems raised which are related to the praxeological research tradition
- use analytic abilities and work independent both oral and in written
build up attitudes related to different philosophical, practical and scientific traditions contexts, areas, and constraints and roles which in society relates to caring, nursing, health and medicine
Required Previous Knowledge
The subject is open for all interested student, max 30 participants, Students enrolled at the master programme in health Science has 1. priority.
Teaching Methods and Extent of Organized Teaching
Lectures
Seminar
Group work with textreadings
Presentations of the theoretical litteratur and its relation to the planned research thesis oral
Presentation of individual read theoretical literature in writing
Individual homework
Total: 40 hours per week for 3.5 weeks
Forms of Assessment
The students will write a final essay consisting of an individual text based on the contents of the course.
Grading Scale
Grading scale A-F
Course Evaluation
The course will have a summative course evaluation with central questions that will be answered orally or written.
Contact Information
Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care
E-mail: mailto:studie@isf.uib.nostudie@isf.uib.no
Tel.: +47 55586100
Course coordinator: Professor Karin Anna Petersen
http://www.uib.no/en/persons/Karin.Anna.Petersen