The Teaching and Learning Principles of Metropolitan Aborigines with Diabetes
Merilyn King
Senior Lecturer, School of Nursing, Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide SA
Kay Wilson
Principle Aboriginal Health Worker, Nunkuwarrin Yunti South Australia Inc, NSW
PP: 152
Abstract
This study was undertaken at a leading Aboriginal health agency in Adelaide called Nunkuwarrin Yunti (King & Wilson, 1998). One of the aims not previously reported involved identifying the way the metropolitan Aborigines prefer to learn about their diabetes management. An ethnographic approach was used to interview ten Aboriginal health professionals and four clients (n=14) about this topic. The results indicated the worldview held by metropolitan Aborigines about diabetes health care, the Aboriginal learner, beliefs about teaching and learning, the characteristics of an effective teacher and a suggested teaching plan.
Keywords
Australoid Race, Australian education, diabetes education
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