Postmodern Pedagogy In The Nursing Classroom

Introduction: In this project, a first year undergraduate nursing class was observed. A number of 18 nursing students were attended in this one hour class. The lesson of the class was about technology in nursing. At the beginning of the class, the educator started by welcoming the students and then she gave a brief feedback about previous assignment. During this one hour class, the educator mainly used the Postmodern Pedagogy and Narrative Pedagogy. By telling stories about her life experiences and makes students challenging what they believe, the educator approach the Postmodern and Narrative Pedagogies.

Discussion of the effectiveness of the pedagogy and strategies used:

Pedagogy:

In this class, the educator mainly used Narrative Pedagogy.

The Postmodern pedagogy explained by Ironside (2001) as the educator ask question to reshape the students perspectives and as the educator and the students think of knowledge in different perspectives and use of meanings. The main focus in this class was about cell phones and how this technology can be used in nursing. At this point, the educator asked questions to the students to illustrate the advantages and the disadvantages of cell phones. After that, the educator approach the Postmodern Pedagogy by challenging students to change their perspectives about some of the advantages and disadvantages to fit the use of technology in the

The stories and the discussion engaged the students and fitted the approached pedagogies. However, the use of audiovisual was very limited and as mentioned before that the young students tend to engage with technology. Learning videos or talks such as Ted Talk could be used in this class, and it might be useful to shows some other professional’s perspectives about the subject. Furthermore, the educator could use the group activities as a teaching strategy. The group activities or group discussion give more space for some students to share their knowledge and as nursing students this activity open their minds to listen and accept the others’ opinions and