Learning through bodily experience: A possibility to enhance healthcare students' ability to empathize?

Advances in Physiotherapy

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 40-47

  Svensen, Anne Riiser ^a   Bergland, Astrid ^a  

^a OSLO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bodily awareness; Bodily experience; Empathy; Learning; Physiotherapy; Student

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR; COMPREHENSION; DATA ANALYSIS; EMOTION; EMPATHY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; INTROSPECTION; LEARNING; MALE; PARAMEDICAL STUDENT; PHYSIOTHERAPY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STUDENT ATTITUDE;

EID: 33947141453     PISSN: 14038196     EISSN: 16511948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14038190601090711     Document Type: Article

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