Globalization and tertiary nursing education in post-Mao China: A preliminary assessment

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-2001

Publication Title

Nursing and Health Sciences

Volume

3

Issue

4

First page number:

179

Last page number:

187

Abstract

This article examines China’s collaborative initiatives with Western countries to assess the impact of globalization on Chinese nursing education, especially at the post-secondary level, in the post-Mao era. Through the theoretical framework of mutuality, it evaluates the outcomes of globalization in two broad domains: pedagogy and system-institution-program building. In addition, case studies on two collaborative projects between Chinese nursing programs and Western institutions were conducted to further illustrate the principles of mutuality. This qualitative assessment is primarily based on a systematic review of published studies on the multifaceted dimensions of globalization in Chinese post-secondary nursing education in both English and Chinese nursing literature since 1990. It is supplemented by unpublished documents and data obtained from a research trip to China in 2000. The study concludes that globalization has been, and will remain, one of the major forces underpinning Chinese nursing education (and the nursing profession in general), which is moving towards integration into the global nursing community. However, there is a significant imbalance in the knowledge transfer equation both in the national and international context. Great efforts need to be made to synthesize nursing knowledge in the East and West to achieve an integrative nursing science.

Keywords

China; Nurses – Education; Nursing – Study and teaching (Higher); Universities and colleges—Curricula

Disciplines

Curriculum and Instruction | Nursing | Other Nursing

Language

English

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