CREATING A CARING SCIENCE CURRICULUM

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.