Serendipity. A focus group turned hermeneutic evaluation
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1Division of Nursing, University of Hartford, West Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
Abstract:
When a focus group exploring the influence of feminism on students' lives became a hermeneutic evaluation, we understood students' lived experience, gained a retrospective view of students' developing feminist voice, and learned how feminist education influenced students' personal and professional lives. Nurse educators in programs espousing phenomenological, practice-driven, dialogic education are encouraged to integrate hermeneutic evaluation strategies so faculty-student groups can make courses and curricula relevant and meaningful.
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