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Orality to literacy: effects on nursing knowledge.

Don Flaming1

  • 1Medicine Hat College, 299 College Drive SE, Medicine Hat, Alberta T1A 3Y6, Canada. dflaming@mhc.ab.ca

Nursing Outlook
|October 22, 2003
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The alphabetization of nursing, marked by increased written publications, has revolutionized knowledge valuation. While fostering critical analysis, it risks devaluing essential experiential and sensory nursing knowledge.

Area of Science:

  • Nursing Education
  • Epistemology
  • Sociolinguistics

Background:

  • The transition from oral to written knowledge systems, termed alphabetization, profoundly impacted Western society.
  • Nursing's shift towards literacy, beginning in the 1970s with increased journal publication, mirrors this historical epistemological revolution.

Observation:

  • This study examines how nurse educators' valuation of knowledge has transformed due to the discipline's increasing reliance on written forms.
  • The shift parallels ancient Greece's transition from orality to literacy, impacting knowledge dissemination and validation.

Findings:

  • Alphabetization in nursing has led to the sedimentation of words, fostering greater criticism and a new rationality in knowledge development.
  • Written knowledge is often automatically valued over oral, experiential, or sensory knowledge within the discipline.

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Implications:

  • The growth of criticism is a positive outcome of nursing's alphabetization, enhancing scholarly discourse.
  • A potential negative consequence is the devaluation of crucial sensorial and experiential knowledge, which is vital in nursing practice.