Keeping Reflection Fresh

Pamela Brett-MacLean

ISBN 10: 1606352830 / ISBN 13: 9781606352830

Published by Kent State University Press Nov 2016, 2016

About this Item

This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Curriculum committees at health professional schools are determined that faculty engage students in reflection. Reflective practice invites students to inquire into their own thoughts, biases, assumptions, feelings, and behaviors and to reconnect with their own sense of purpose and commitment to their work. In Keeping Reflection Fresh, practitioners, educators, and students in medical humanities, bioethics, nursing, emergency medicine, geriatrics, psychiatry, family medicine, surgery, medical education, and other fields join artists, musicians, poets, and writers to present an illuminating and innovative collection of provocative essays. The contributors-including Louise Aronson, Jay Baruch, Alan Bleakley, Rita Charon, Jack Coulehan, Sayantani DasGupta, Therese Jones, and Delese Wear, among many others-offer insights, guidance, and strategies designed to inspire new concepts, connections, and conversations, enrich practices, and stimulate scholarly inquiry.Keeping Reflection Fresh demonstrates the care and commitment of internationally recognized educators who are working toward reimagining health education and re-inspiring health care. It will be welcomed by a broad readership of educators, students, practitioners, and lifelong learners across the healing professions, social sciences, humanities, and artistic disciplines. 436 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Keeping Reflection Fresh
• Publisher: Kent State University Press Nov 2016
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1606352830
• ISBN 13: 9781606352830
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 249W x 152H x 30D millimeters 249 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 30 millimeters depth
• Weight: 612 grams

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Synopsis

Curriculum committees at health professional schools are determined that faculty engage students in reflection. Reflective practice invites students to inquire into their own thoughts, biases, assumptions, feelings, and behaviors and to reconnect with their own sense of purpose and commitment to their work. In Keeping Reflection Fresh, practitioners, educators, and students in medical humanities, bioethics, nursing, emergency medicine, geriatrics, psychiatry, family medicine, surgery, medical education, and other fields join artists, musicians, poets, and writers to present an illuminating and innovative collection of provocative essays. The contributors―including Louise Aronson, Jay Baruch, Alan Bleakley, Rita Charon, Jack Coulehan, Sayantani DasGupta, Therese Jones, and Delese Wear, among many others―offer insights, guidance, and strategies designed to inspire new concepts, connections, and conversations, enrich practices, and stimulate scholarly inquiry.

Keeping Reflection Fresh demonstrates the care and commitment of internationally recognized educators who are working toward reimagining health education and re-inspiring health care. It will be welcomed by a broad readership of educators, students, practitioners, and lifelong learners across the healing professions, social sciences, humanities, and artistic disciplines.

About the Author

Allan Peterkin, M.D., is a professor of psychiatry and family medicine at the University of Toronto, where he is the humanities lead for Undergraduate Medical Education and the head of the Program in Health, Arts and Humanities.

Pamela Brett-MacLean, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and director of the Arts & Humanities in Health & Medicine Program in the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry at the University of Alberta.