Nancy Diekelmann, PhD, RN, FAAN

Title: Helen Denne Schulte Professor
Phone: Contact through Cathy Langsdorf at (608) 263-5155
E-mail: nldiekel@wisc.edu

H6/246
600 Highland Avenue
Madison WI
53792-2455

Education:

Description of Research Focus:

My interpretive phenomenological research deconstructs and challenges the appropriation of schooling, learning and teaching practices by institutions of learning (schools) and seeks to return an understanding of these practices as constitutive of being human. Part of my scholarship is to identify and explore the resonances of these practices in schools as possibilities for transforming contemporary life. This is towards a reawakening, a recovery and a revisioning of the possibilities inherent in schooling, learning and teaching in the context of nursing education.

The common everyday experiences of students, teachers, and clinicians in nursing education are described in my scholarship. As such, a conventional pedagogy in schools of nursing is described creating places for critical, feminist, and postmodern discourses. The method I utilize for narrative analysis (Heideggerian hermeneutics) includes the authors of narratives as co-participants in the research. Returning analyzed (explicated) narratives to communities of students, teachers and clinicians which is required of the method, has given rise to a new pedagogical possibility: Narrative Pedagogy. Other areas of scholarship include: explicating the Diekelmann Concernful Practices of Schooling Learning and Teaching which reflect the common and shared experiences of students, teachers, and clinicians, and the Curriculum-as Dialogue as the decentering of teachers and teaching while putting into play the languages of schooling, learning, and teaching.

Representative Publications:

Young, P., & Diekelmann, N. (accepted for publication). Learning to lecture: Exploring the skills, strategies and practices of new teachers in nursing education. Journal of Nursing Education.Press.

Diekelmann, N., & Diekelmann, J. (in press). Schooling, learning, teaching: Toward a narrative pedagogy. University of Wisconsin

Diekelmann, N. (2002). Engendering community: Learning and sharing expertise in the skills and practices of teaching [Featured Column]. Journal of Nursing Education, 41(6), 241-242.

Diekelmann, N. (2001). Narrative pedagogy: Heideggerian hermeneutical analyses of the lived experiences of students, teachers and clinicians. Advances in Nursing Science, 23(3), 53-71.