Rolfe Gary, Gardner Lyn
School of Health Science, University of Wales, Swansea, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK.
Nurse Educ Today. 2006 Dec;26(8):634-9. doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2006.07.011. Epub 2006 Oct 6.
This paper is an amended and abridged version of a seminar given at the NET/NEP 1st Nurse Education International Conference in Vancouver, Canada. The topic of the paper arose from our growing concerns about the state of nurse education and its position in the university at the start of the twenty-first century. We share the fears expressed by Readings that the university has lost its way and is increasingly driven by a business agenda and a quest for ever-greater efficiency. Our biggest concern is with the impact that the so-called 'posthistorical university' is having on the study of nursing, particularly the growing pressure on nurse academics to focus their attention and energy on output at the expense of process, and on research at the expense of practice and practitioner development. We suggest that the solution might lie with Jean-Francois Lyotard's notion of postmodern philosophy as a way of opening up debate and, in his words, saving the honour of thinking.
本文是在加拿大温哥华举行的首届国际护理教育网络/新教育政策护士教育国际会议上发表的研讨会论文的修订和缩略版。本文主题源自我们在21世纪初对护理教育状况及其在大学中地位的日益担忧。我们认同里德所表达的担忧，即大学已迷失方向，越来越受商业议程和追求更高效率的驱使。我们最担心的是所谓的“后历史大学”对护理研究的影响，尤其是护理学者面临的越来越大的压力，即他们将注意力和精力集中在产出上而牺牲了过程，集中在研究上而牺牲了实践和从业者发展。我们认为，解决办法可能在于让·弗朗索瓦·利奥塔的后现代哲学概念，以此展开辩论，用他的话说，是为了挽救思考的尊严。
