- Title
- Using experiential learning to facilitate pharmacy students' understanding of patients' medication practice in chronic illness
- Creator
- Williams, Kevin
- Subject
- Chronic diseases -- Chemotherapy Chronically ill -- Care Pharmacy -- Study and teaching Pharmacy -- Practice Social medicine Health -- Sociological aspects Diseases -- Sociological aspects Health -- Psychological aspects
- Date Issued
- 2006
- Date
- 2006
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Doctoral
- Type
- PhD
- Identifier
- vital:1322
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003955
- Description
- This study originates from experiences which led me to question the way pharmacists are equipped to advise and support the medicine-taking practice of patients using chronic medication. The study offers a critical theoretical consideration of underlying perspectives informing pharmacy education. I propose following a critical realist ontological perspective, a social realist understanding of social structure and human agency, and a sociocultural epistemology. Based on these perspectives, I consider a sociological critique of ‘health’, ‘disease’, ‘illness’ and ‘sickness’ perspectives on medicine-taking, and of pharmacy as a profession. I then propose an experiential learning approach, with an emphasis on developing reflexivity through affective learning. I follow this with an illustrative case study. Following a critical discourse analysis of student texts from the case study, I conclude that there is evidence that experiential learning may prove useful in developing pharmacy students’ reflexive competency to support the provision of pharmaceutical care to patients using chronic medications.
- Format
- 331 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Rhodes University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Education, Centre for Higher Education Research, Teaching and Learning (CHERTL)
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Williams, Kevin
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