FRAMING LEARNING THROUGH REFLECTION WITHIN CARPERS FUNDAMENTAL WAYS OF KNOWING IN NURSING

Carper's fundamental ways of knowing have been utilized as a framework for the practitioner to consider what he or she has learnt through re flection on experience. The purpose of this paper is to consider, thro ugh an interpretation of Carper's writings and through analysing one p ractitioner's experience shared in a supervision milieu, whether this use of Carper's work can be reasonably justified on a theoretical and practical level.