Creating a Caring Science Curriculum, Second Edition
A Relational Emancipatory Pedagogy for Nursing

Creating a Caring Science Curriculum, Second Edition
A Relational Emancipatory Pedagogy for Nursing
Marcia Hills, PhD, RN, FAAN, FCAN
Jean Watson, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN, LL-AAN
Chantal Cara, PhD, RN, FAAN, FCAN
Jean Watson, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN, LL-AAN
The hallmark text for nursing faculty seeking to promote the transformative teaching of caring science, Creating a Caring Science Curriculum: A Relational Emancipatory Pedagogy for Nursing reflects the paramount scholarship of Caring Science educators. This second edition intertwines visionary thinking with blueprints, exemplars, and dynamic direction for the application of fundamental principles. It goes beyond the conventional by offering a model that serves as an emancipatory, ethical-philosophical, educational, and pedagogical learning guide for both teachers and students.
Divided into five units, the text addresses the history of the caring curriculum revolution and its powerful presence within nursing. Unit I lays the foundation for a Caring Science curriculum. Unit II introduces intellectual and strategic blueprints for caring-based education, including action-oriented approaches for faculty–student relations, teaching/learning skills, pedagogical practices, critical-reflective-creative approaches to evolving human consciousness, and power relation dynamics. Unit III addresses curriculum structure and design, the evolution of a caring-based college of nursing, caring in advanced practice education, and the development of caring consciousness in nurse leaders. It also features real-world exemplars of Caring Science curricula. Unit IV includes an alternative approach to clinical and course-based evaluation, and the text concludes with an exploration of the future of the Caring Science curriculum as a way of emancipating the human spirit. Each chapter is structured to maximize engagement with reflective exercises and learning activities that encourage the integration of theory and practice into the learning process.
New to This Edition:
- Updated chapters, case studies, and learning activities
- Six new chapters that provide guidance on how to create a Caring Science curriculum
- Exemplars from institutions that have developed Caring Science curricula
Key Features:
- Provides a broad application of Caring Science for teachers, students, and nursing leaders
- Features case studies of teacher/student lived learning experiences within a caring–loving pedagogical environment
- Encourages the integration of theory and practice into the learning process with learning activities and reflective exercises
- Distills the expertise of world-renowned Caring Science scholars
- Purchase includes digital access for use on most mobile devices or computers
Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
UNIT I. FOUNDATIONS OF A CARING SCIENCE CURRICULUM
Chapter 1. Caring Science: Curriculum Revolutions and Detours Along the Way
Chapter 2. Caring Science Disciplinary Evolution
Chapter 3. Beliefs and Assumptions: The Hidden Drivers of Curriculum Development
Chapter 4. A Theoretical/Philosophical Framework for a Caring Science Curriculum
UNIT II. A RELATIONAL EMANCIPATORY PEDAGOGY FOR CARING SCIENCE CURRICULA
Chapter 5. Emancipatory Pedagogy: The Transformation of Consciousness Through Relational Inquiry
Chapter 6. Creating Caring Relationships: Collaboration, Power and Participation
Chapter 7. Engaging in Critical Caring Dialogue: Listening, Critical Questioning, and Critical Thinking
Chapter 8. Critical Reflection-in-Action (Praxis): Emancipatory Action
Chapter 9. Creating a Culture of Caring
UNIT III. CREATING A CARING SCIENCE CURRICULUM
Chapter 10. Collaborative Caring Science Curriculum Structure and Design: Transcending Reductionistic Models
Chapter 11. Creating Canada's First Caring Science Curriculum: The Collaborative Nursing Program of British Columbia
Chapter 12. Humanism in the Classroom: 30 Years of Experience With Caring Science
Chapter 13. Evolution of a Caring-Based College of Nursing
Chapter 14. Creating a Caring Science Curriculum: The Siena Experience
Chapter 15. Developing Caring Consciousness in Nurse Leaders
Chapter 16. Indigenist Nursing: Caring Keeps Us Close to the Source
Chapter 17. Simulation, Narrative Pedagogy, and Caring FidelityTM—The New Reality
UNIT IV. BEYOND EVALUATION TO AUTHENTICATION
Chapter 18. Connoisseurship: An Alternative Approach to Evaluation
UNIT V. ENSURING THE FUTURE OF NURSING: EMBRACING CARING SCIENCE
Chapter 19. Reflecting and Revisioning: Bringing the Heart and Mind Together
Index
Marcia Hills, RN, PhD, FAAN, FCAN, is Professor, School of Nursing, Faculty of Human and Social Development, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Dr. Hills is a distinguished scholar of Caring Science, faculty associate, inaugural chair of the Faculty Executive and Faculty Council, and academic lead of the doctoral program at the Watson Caring Science Institute (WSCI).
Jean Watson, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN, is distinguished professor emerita and dean emerita of the School of Nursing at the University of Colorado. She is the founder of the Center for Human Caring in Colorado, a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, and a past president of the National League for Nursing. Dr. Watson is a widely published author and recipient of several awards and honors, including an international Kellogg Fellowship in Australia, a Fulbright Research Award in Sweden, and five honorary doctoral degrees, including Honorary International Doctor of Science awards from Goteborg University, Sweden, and Luton University, London. Dr. Watson's caring philosophy is used to guide new models of caring and healing practices in diverse settings worldwide. At the University of Colorado, Dr. Watson holds the title of distinguished professor of nursing, the highest honor accorded its faculty for scholarly work.
Jean Watson, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN, is distinguished professor emerita and dean emerita of the School of Nursing at the University of Colorado. She is the founder of the Center for Human Caring in Colorado, a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, and a past president of the National League for Nursing. Dr. Watson is a widely published author and recipient of several awards and honors, including an international Kellogg Fellowship in Australia, a Fulbright Research Award in Sweden, and five honorary doctoral degrees, including Honorary International Doctor of Science awards from Goteborg University, Sweden, and Luton University, London. Dr. Watson's caring philosophy is used to guide new models of caring and healing practices in diverse settings worldwide. At the University of Colorado, Dr. Watson holds the title of distinguished professor of nursing, the highest honor accorded its faculty for scholarly work.
Chantal Cara, RN, PhD, FAAN, FCAN, is Professor, Faculty of Nursing, Université de Montréal in Québec, Canada.

- Release Date: December 28, 2020
- Paperback / softback
- 350 Pages
- Trim Size: 7in x 10in
- ISBN: 9780826136022
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