A Course in Literature about Illness and Disability.

Autor/in	Dodson, Charles Brooks
Titel	A Course in Literature about Illness and Disability.
Quelle	(1987), (7 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Leitfaden; Unterricht; Lehrer; Content Analysis; Course Objectives; Curriculum Design; Disabilities; Diseases; Higher Education; Interdisciplinary Approach; Literature Appreciation; Nursing Education; Reader Response; Thematic Approach; Theory Practice Relationship + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lesson concept; Instruction; Unterrichtsentwurf; Unterrichtsprozess; Teacher; Teachers; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Inhaltsanalyse; Lehrplangestaltung; Handicap; Behinderung; Disease; Krankheit; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Fächerübergreifender Unterricht; Fächerverbindender Unterricht; Interdisziplinarität; Literarische Wertung; Pflegepädagogik; Leserbrief; Themenzentrierter Unterricht; Theorie-Praxis-Beziehung
Abstract	A "special themes in literature" course about illness and disability was designed to help future nurses to understand the human, rather than the clinical, dimensions of impairment and its effects on the sufferer as well as the sufferer's family, associates, and community. The objectives of the course were to look at such matters as attitudes of and toward the person afflicted, how both individuals and society try to cope with the situation, and the image of medical and other health professionals found in the literature. The course content consisted of four units: catastrophic illness and disability; mental illness; addiction; and intellectual impairment. Especially effective literary works included: "The Glass Menagerie," in which Laura's limp is more a symbol than a cause of her emotional problems; Doris Lund's "Eric," a first-person account of the author's teenaged son's intense struggle against leukemia; and Joanne Greenberg's "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden" and Barbara Gordon's "I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can" which deal with mental illness and valium dependency. Other effective works used were William Burroughs'"Junky" and O"Neill's "Long Day's Journey into Night" dealing with drug addiction and alcoholism, and Coleen MacCullough's "Tim" and Mary McCracken's "A Circle of Children" which center on intellectual impairment. The reading list was supplemented with several films and guest lecturers. (KEH)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC