A HISTORY OF THE EVOLUTION OF NURSING EDUCATION IN BOTSWANA, 1922-1980.
Contributors: Columbia University. Teachers College.
Published: 1987
Number of pages: 506
Subjects: Education, History of.; Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: The study is a historical study of the evolution of nursing education in Botswana from 1922-1980. Selected Paulo Freire's writings on oppression were used to form the conceptual framework in the interpretation of the interactions of the main actors in the development of nursing education.

Data for the study were collected from two main sources: The Botswana National Archives and oral history. Data from this latter source were collected from nurses, doctors, and civic leaders who had directly or indirectly influenced the course of nursing education in the country. A total of 46 subjects participated in the study. Included in this number were five of the very first Botswana women to be recruited into nursing.

The study revealed that nursing education in Botswana was a product of colonial and missionary penetration of the country by the British; that early nursing education was tied up with the introduction of the western health care system to the country and the construction of the very first health facilities. In this respect, early nursing education in Botswana did not differ significantly from early nursing education in most countries in general and in particular from early nursing education in other British colonies.

Furthermore, the study revealed that six curricular evolutions occurred during the period of the study and that these developments were substantially influenced by political, socioeconomic, and cultural factors. The conceptual framework selected for interpretation of the data worked very well, and the study concluded by describing the nursing situation in Botswana at the time of writing (1987) in order to bring the reader up to date with the situation in nursing education in Botswana today.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 51-07, Section: A, page: 2290.

Thesis (ED.D.)--COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY TEACHERS COLLEGE, 1987.

School code: 0055.