Transformative Learning as the Basis for Teaching Healing

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Published: Jan 12, 2015
DOI: https://doi.org/10.26443/ijwpc.v2i1.89
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physician-healer, transformative education, healing, medical students

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John H. Kearsley
University of New South Wales, Sydney St. George Hospital, Kogarah

Abstract

The author describes the nature of transformative education, and highlights the potential importance of its implementation in creating physician-healers and propagating whole person care. The author proposes that teaching courses in healing are integral to the professional identity formation of “doctors as healers”.

 

The teaching of Healing in workshop format for medical students is used as a template to suggest innovative teaching models (after Mezirow, Boyd and Myers, Daloz and Dirkx) which may be used to  engender  personal transformation in doctors and medical students, many of whom are trained as applied scientists in health.

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Kearsley, J. H. (2015). Transformative Learning as the Basis for Teaching Healing. The International Journal of Whole Person Care, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.26443/ijwpc.v2i1.89
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Vol. 2 No. 1 (2015): Tending to Mortals
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Theoretical Papers

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Author Biography

John H. Kearsley, University of New South Wales, Sydney St. George Hospital, Kogarah

Prof. Medicine, School of Medicine, UNSW

Director of Radiation Oncology, St. George Hospital, Kogarah

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