Today's nursing programs are struggling to accommodate the changing needs of the health care environment and need to make changes in how students are taught. Using constructivism theory, whereby learning is an active process in which learners construct new ideas or concepts based upon their current or past knowledge, leaders in nursing education can make a paradigm shift toward concept-based cu...

Debates about the concept of disease have traditionally been framed as a competition between two conflicting approaches: naturalism, on one hand, and normativism or social constructivism, other. In this article, we lay groundwork for naturalistic form constructivism by (1) dissociating presumed link value-free conceptions broadly approach; (2) offering argument constructivism; (3) suggesting av...

In 1974, W. J. McKeachie published a brief article in The Educational Researcher called, “The Decline and Fall of the Laws of Learning.” This article was primarily about the decline and fall of the behaviorist laws of learning and radical behaviorism, both of which were never quite the same in psychology or education after this article as before it was published. The purpose of this paper is to...

A graduate course on cultural diversity, based in constructivist theory and structured on the Process of Cultural Competence in the Delivery of Healthcare Services model, was developed and taught through classroom and online methods. The following research questions were explored: 1) Can an educational experience, built on constructivist learning theory tenets, change students' perceptions, att...