1. As nurse educator, you are now going to handle a group of learners in the community who are used to the traditional and supernatural healing techniques. What change strategies will you use and why?
Change Strategies:
1. Thinking-Practice Strategy
This is a strategy which assumes that learners are rational beings with mental faculties and behave according to their personal beliefs, interests and motivation.
2. Interest and Commitment Strategy
This strategy assumes that learners always act consistently with their desire to change and commitment to socio-cultural norms of behavior. They are therefore willing to change for purposes of acceptance and recognition. It is a self-made process, and the extent of learning depends on the learners’ prospective goals of behavior change.
Example:
In a re-educative milieu, the teacher strives to foster development of students through counseling, training, small groups and experiential learning, and encourages individuals to participate in his or her own re-education process.
3. Power and Self Discipline Strategy
This is a strategy which makes learners comply with instructions given by the teacher as an authoritative figure in order to bring about change. It is more traditional in style as it often demotivates students and could make teaching and learning processes offensive (Bradshaw & Lowenstein, 2007).