Education can never be neutral--teaching for subversion.

Abstract

Nurse education is in the turbulent throws of political, demographic and ideological change, as many colleges adopt a curriculum to produce a new breed of nurse, through 'Project 2000'. Essentially however, those preparing these students for professional practice are often entrenched in the traditional and hierarchial tutor-student relationships with which we are all familiar. This paper seeks to explore the work of some radical educationalists with a view to presenting subversive teaching as a credible, and potentially desirable, entity. To cope with change and survive as a profession, nurse education cannot afford to throw out the bedpan along with its contents.