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Can concept mapping be used to promote meaningful learning in nurse education?
Author(s) -
Irvine Lindesay M C
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1995.21061175.x
Subject(s) - meaningful learning , concept map , rote learning , nurse educator , promotion (chess) , metacognition , nurse education , psychology , nursing , pedagogy , medicine , teaching method , mathematics education , cooperative learning , political science , cognition , neuroscience , politics , law
Recent changes in nurse education have led to a desire in nurse educators to promote meaningful learning rather than rote learning of facts A major metacognitive learning strategy that appears to promote this is concept mapping However, many nurse educators appear to be unaware of this strategy's existence, or of the research evidence available that supports the claim of promoting meaningful learning This paper sets out to address these issues It explores the nature of a concept map, the research on concept mapping and meaningful learning and possible reasons why its use has not been noticeable in nurse education By addressing these issues it is hoped that more nurse educators will attempt to use concept mapping in the promotion of meaningful learning