Views on teaching-learning: lessons learned from nursing education in Sweden

Although change sometimes feels risky, nurse educators continually search for more effective ways of teaching. Different approaches to teaching-learning were experienced during a visiting professorship at a Swedish university. Ethnographic methods involving participant observation and interviews with faculty and students were used to understand the educational philosophy and methods of teaching and learning. Reflection exercises and suggestions provide ideas about how these approaches might be adapted for use in the United States.