International Journal of New Developments in Education, 2025, 7(8); doi: 10.25236/IJNDE.2025.070821.
Yang Song1, Linlin Chen1, Wenbin Jiang2, Hailing Du1, Hongzhen Cao1, Hongjin Sui2
1School of Management, Liaoning University of International Business and Economics, Dalian, 116052, Liaoning, China
2Department of Anatomy, School of Basic Medicine, Dalian Medical University, Dalian, 116044, Liaoning, China
As a key visual communication carrier, drawing plays an important role in medical teaching. Although the elderly care major is an emerging non-medical major that differs from traditional medical majors in terms of training objectives, basic medical knowledge is also an important direction for the cultivation of elderly care talents and it plays an irreplaceable role in the development of their professional abilities. To enhance the nursing competence of students majoring in elderly care, based on the concept of generative learning, practical forms such as integrating blackboard drawing into teaching, assigning drawing assignments after class, and conducting teacher-student co-created drawing flipped classrooms are adopted. This drawing-centered teaching model can effectively break the limitations of traditional theoretical teaching and transform abstract medical knowledge into a perceptible learning process. These practices facilitate students in improving their nursing practical abilities, humanistic care literacy, and innovative thinking during the process of actively constructing knowledge and dynamic generation, thereby cultivating high-quality applied talents for the elderly care service field.
Elderly Care; Drawing Practice; Generative Learning; Nursing Competence; Teaching Application
Yang Song, Linlin Chen, Wenbin Jiang, Hailing Du, Hongzhen Cao, Hongjin Sui. Application of Drawing Practice in Elderly Care Major Teaching - A Practical Method for Improving Nursing Ability of Elderly Care Major Students. International Journal of New Developments in Education (2025), Vol. 7, Issue 8: 131-136. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJNDE.2025.070821.
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