Scholarship, teaching and calculative thinking: a critique of the audit culture in UK nurse education

Stephen Horrocks

doi:10.1016/j.nedt.2005.06.005

Scholarship, teaching and calculative thinking: a critique of the audit culture in UK nurse education

Nurse Educ Today. 2006 Jan;26(1):4-10. doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2005.06.005. Epub 2005 Aug 24.

Author

Stephen Horrocks¹

Affiliation

¹ School of Nursing, The University of Salford, Allerton Building, Salford, Manchester M6 6PU, United Kingdom.

PMID: 16125278
DOI: 10.1016/j.nedt.2005.06.005

Abstract

We are only beginning to understand the significance and consequences of how the era of Quality Assurance Mechanisms is effecting nurse education. This paper argues that the later philosophy of Heidegger can teach us a lot regarding the underlying "calculative thinking" which informs the administrative mind-set which nurse education has taken on hook, line, and sinker.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Attitude of Health Personnel
Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / organization & administration*
Faculty, Nursing / organization & administration
Fellowships and Scholarships
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Humans
Mathematics
Nursing Audit / organization & administration*
Nursing Education Research / organization & administration*
Organizational Culture
Organizational Innovation
Philosophy, Nursing*
Quality Assurance, Health Care / organization & administration
Teaching
Thinking*
United Kingdom
Universities / organization & administration*