Presence in Teaching-Learning: Witnessing Unfolding

Abstract

In this column the author explains presence in teaching-learning nurse education. The sixth process in the humanbecoming teaching-learning model—witnessing unfolding—is used to help explain development of new knowledge of nurse learners on an academic service learning journey.

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academic service learning humanbecoming presence teaching-learning witnessing unfolding

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