An example of modeling online relational engagement

Relational practice provides a lens through which core values of the nursing profession are made visible. The Community of Inquiry (CoI) is a well-established online education framework that encourages deeper forms of learning in the engagement of students. This video presentation intends to model an integration of relational practice within the CoI framework as an example of online teaching and learning, and reflect a commitment to core human-centred values within relational professions.

Steve Cairns is an Assistant Professor at Nipissing University in Ontario, Canada Steve completed two fellowships through the Associated Medical Services/Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (AMS/RNAO) focusing on online relational engagement strategies among undergraduate nursing students. Steve is currently a PhD candidate in nursing education at York University focusing on the engagement of Registered Nurses in actions associated with climate and ecological crisis. Steve enjoys an active lifestyle in all seasons among family and friends in Bracebridge, Ontario. stevenc@nipissingu.ca

Dr. Louela Manakil-Rankin comes from a long history in teaching undergraduate nursing students. Her passion is in engaging students in reflection and reconstruction of their experiences within the teaching and learning relationship. She is an advocate of Narrative Inquiry as a foundational learning frame for becoming a nurse. Her educational interests are reflective practice, curriculum design, and program evaluation. louelam@nipissingu.ca

Dr. Michelle Marie Spadoni's teaching practices are rooted in a relational practice perspective as articulated by Gweneth Hartrick Doane and Colleen Varcoe, with a particular interest in narrative and aesthetic ways of knowing, informed by hermeneutic, critical feminist, post colonial and post-structural inquiry. Approaches that appreciate lived experience, and deconstruct and reconstruct issues of social location, power, and privilege at the intrapersonal (self), interpersonal (self/other/environment), and contextual (institutional, social, political, economic, historical) level. mmspadon@lakeheadu.ca