INTEREST GROUP SESSION - REMINISCENCE LIFE STORY AND NARRATIVE: PEDAGOGICAL STRATEGIES FOR TEACHING AND ENGAGING STUDENTS IN REMINISCENCE AND LIFE REVIEW WORK

摘要

In order to find purpose and meaning in the lived experience, we are often called to reflect, review, and reminisce. Congruent with this year’s conference theme, “The Purposes of Longer Lives,” this symposium highlights five paper presentations focusing on practical, tested, pedagogical strategies that can be used when engaging students and teaching methods of reminiscence and life review work with elders. Important ethical considerations of this type of work will also be addressed. The first presentation describes practical strategies for implementing an oral history project with undergraduate students and underscores the positive outcomes this project can have for students and elders alike. The second presentation describes Therapeutic Narrative Intervention (TNI) and the importance of elucidating variations of motives, goals, and techniques associated with TNI for students. The third presentation highlights positive outcomes associated with inclusion of a life review project in a baccalaureate nursing course as educators seek to increase student interest in working with older adults. The fourth presentation explores a hybrid instructional method consisting of ethnodrama and transformative learning approaches through analysis of oral history transcripts. The final presentation describes basic ethical principles developed within the context of research with human subjects and focuses on how these principles can be adapted for student-based reminiscence projects. While reminiscence and life review work takes many forms, these presentations highlight the benefits of inclusion of such activities in the classroom.