This article is an interpretive analysis of the author's method of teaching nursing to a diverse student body in an associate degree program. Rather than lecturing, the author and her colleagues facilitate small-group discussions, engaging students in communicative dialogue.This method leads to flexibility and openness to student ideas as well as opportunities to share personal stories and dial...

The role of technicians and background characters in the historical practice of science is slowly gaining recognition. This paper looks at the collective effort involved in learning science, using as my case study the eighteenth-century musician turned astronomer, William Herschel. Lacking a university education, Herschel, like many contemporaries, presented himself as self-taught, thereby hidi...

This article argues that current re#ective practitioner models have a temporally truncated bias that has resulted in an emphasis on retrospective over prospective re#ection. The temporally distributed nature of prospective teacher thinking is illustrated using data from a study that examined six Intern teachers' future-oriented re#ection. Themes that emerged from Interns' graphical depictions a...