The Consortium for Nursing History Inquiry celebrates the UBC Centennial and explores the history and future of nursing education. Dr. Kathryn McPherson, Associate Professor in Gender, Feminist, and Women’s History at York University and author of the seminal text, Bedside Matters: The Transformation of Canadian Nursing, 1900-1990 presents the keynote lecture. In her lecture, “Learning Across Boarders: Nursing Education, Practice, and Transnational Migration in the Long 20th Century,” McPherson speaks to the way recent international scholarship in nursing history has helped us think more critically about the divisions within nursing education – how questions of nursing education have been caught up in larger political and cultural debates about skill, gender, nationalism, and religion.Following the Dr. McPherson’s lecture, Dr. Veronica Strong-Boag, Dr. Sally Thorne, and Assistant Professor Emerita Ethel Warbinek give a response as a lead-in to discussion with the audience about the future, promise, and persistent challenges of nursing education and academic nursing programs.
This event took place on Thursday November 19, 2015. 10am-2:30pm at the UBC School of Nursing Room.
Select Articles and Books Available at UBC Library
Manitoba Association of Registered Nurses. (1976). Nursing education: Challenge and change. Winnipeg: The Association. [Available at Woodward Library storage (WD1) – WY18.M355 1976]
McPherson, K. M. (2003). Bedside matters: The transformation of Canadian nursing, 1900-1990. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. [Available at Biomedical Branch Library (VGH) stacks – WY11.DC2 M364 2003]
Moncrief, K. M., & McPherson, K. R. (2011). Performing Pedagogy in Early Modern England: Gender, Instruction and Performance. Burlington, VT;Farnham, Surrey;: Ashgate Pub.[Available at Koerner Library – PR428.E42 P47 2011]
Pringle, D. M., Green, L., Johnson, S., & desLibris – Documents. (2004). Nursing Education in Canada Historical Review and Current Capacity Nursing Study Sector Corporation. [Link]
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