Using action research within a school of nursing: exposing tensions in ideologies | Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing Home Archives Vol. 18 No. 4 (2001): June - August 2001 Research Papers Main Article Content

Margaret McAllister
Lynette Stockhausen

Keywords

action research, critical theory, cirriculm evaluation, nursing education

Abstract

This paper examines and critically reflects on a recent curriculum evaluation that took place in 1999 within a school of nursing. Critical theory, and in particular action research, was chosen as an approach for the research. The method aimed to foster participation and reveal and problematise aspects of nursing education which had become taken for granted. Through the process of action research a number of tensions and challenges were revealed. The exposed tensions and challenges are discussed and reframed so that they offer potential for renewed commitment to nursing education, rather than continued constraint and conformity.

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