Poster presentations
Wilkie, Kay: University of Dundee, UK
The Facilitation Kaleidoscope
The poster presents some of the results from a study that explored the espoused and actual conceptions of PBL adopted by facilitators in a newly-developed pre-registration nursing diploma programme that employed PBL. To explore the lived experience of the PBL curriculum, a constructivist interpretist qualitative research design was adopted. For facilitation in PBL to be effective in promoting independent learning and developing critical thinking, teachers were required to sustain the newly espoused pedagogy and to adapt their actions to match. Although participants possessed facilitation skills before the start of the study, expertise in PBL facilitation took time and practice to acquire as existing skills had to be applied in new ways. The poster displays the Facilitation Kaleidoscope, a diagrammatic representation of the impact of six elements identified from the data on the approaches adopted by facilitators.
KEYWORDS: facilitation styles
