RESULTS
These formulations trickle or seep down into other documents through reformulations and
concretisations. All these documents are intended to support the students in their understanding of literacies nexus in higher education.
SPEECH AS A PART OF LITERACIES NEXUS
Communication towards profession
www.mah.se
Cecilia Olsson Jers
Malmö University, Sweden
Communicative competence is increasingly in demand in the workplace. If you aren´t able to communicate in a competent manner, you risk not being given the responsibilities you want or perhaps not even finding employment in the first place. This entails a great responsibility on part of the university to ensure that the students are equipped with adequate communication skills for their professional life. The project, Communication towards profession, aimed to identify in which way oral communicative performance in individual courses corresponds to the communicative competence that is required in professional life. The overarching research question central to the project is: Which possibilities are students given to change their ethos during their education?
INTRODUCTION
The main focus of my project is on Nursing science programme. I particularly investigate communication patterns in nurse trainees. Nursing has become science in 1993 in the Swedish higher education system. This means that national targets are formulated in the governing documents. Based on The Higher Education Ordinance formulations, training can be arranged in different ways at different universities.
METHODOLGY
Textual analysis of policy documents on different levels, and interviews with faculty in nursing education.
CONCLUSION
SPEECH AS A PART OF LITERACIES NEXUS
There is a unaccustomed when it comes to writing and speaking about oral skills in a profession like Nursing Science program. In interviews with teachers at the Nursing Science program, they refer mainly to the clinical practice when they are talking about oral skills and communication competence. The students do not get any opportunity to talk about their use of language in a more theoretical way in order to gain an understanding of the importance of ethos. The Higher
Eduacation Ordinance formulations, shows a very little variation of formulations about oral communicative competence. The level of abstraction of words for
communicative skills in the documents at different levels do not differ significantly. With this small variation the teachers at the Nursing Science program will have little support in their teaching of professional language. My interpretation of the result is that this unaccustomed hampers students’ ability to change their ehtos
during education, as recommended in the Higher Education Ordinance formulations.
Cecilia Olsson Jers
PhD Associate Professor
Culture, Languages and Media
Faculty of Education and Society
Malmö University
205 06 Malmö, Sweden
#(46) 705 10 11 91
Everyday Language
The Higher Education Ordinance formulations on oral skills (national)
Training plans (Malmö University) Syllabuses (Malmö University)
Study Guides (Malmö University)
Communication to different groups
}
→
Tutors in Clinical practice
Teachers at the Nursing
Science program
Health Care Language
The students are part of complex rhetorical situations where different types of tutors (both theoretical and practical) will support them to conquer a professional health care language.
→ →
→
