Reviews for Contemporary Professional Nursing: Instructor's Guide

The average rating for Contemporary Professional Nursing: Instructor's Guide based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-10-18 00:00:00 Gubacsko Daniel This book takes at the heart an idea that museum and gallery educators should be proficient in the use and conduct of applied educational research. The strength of this book is the quality and amount of research that the authors executed in relation to different aspects of museums and gallery education, such as political situation that shaped the relations between museum and the national curriculum in many countries. The authors clearly indicated their understanding of the needs of different types of museum audience that was a result of extended analysis. Sometimes it seems that the aim of each article in this book is to support the statement that museums and galleries are fundamental sources for expanding school education, but the actual aim of the book is to bring forward international cooperation in the field of research on education. The case studies are intended to be read by educators for their applications of ideas to education. Perhaps, this is the reason why this source, although very comprehensive, appears to be too theoretical in its coverage of numerous surveys without discussing the content of the projects that museums provided visitors with. The first chapter, which is dedicated to the idea of learning and its construction, as well as what we get from it, established the basis for the whole theoretical approach of this book. The source that is written on the basis of surveys and personal stories of visitors, each of which is carefully considered and analysed and it is the story, expressed in Maaria Linko’s chapter on The Longing for Authenthic Experiences, that makes this book not only theoretical, but also a little bit emotional and even striking. How can a simple but perhaps so fascinating museum make a person forget where she is, when she submerges herself into the mysterious world of art? A contrast between the world of art and the material world is expressed in the visitor’s own account of her perception of a painting in the words “The guards are staring”, when she was “overwhelmed by the demand of civilized behavior” from their side.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-12-09 00:00:00 Trisha Phillips This book is extremely repetitive. For the same drug class, you read about the same things over and over again. Although, I guess repetition is good and aids in memory. But I still hated the book.