Making power visible: Doing theatre-based status work with nursing students |
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Affiliation: | 1. Worcester Polytechnic Institute, United States;2. University of New Hampshire, United States;1. School of Nursing, Queensland University of Technology, Victoria Park Rd, Kelvin Grove, Queensland, 4059, Australia;2. Royal Brisbane and Women''s Hospital, Butterfield St, Herston, Queensland, 4006, Australia;3. Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane, QLD, Australia;1. Marquette University College of Nursing, P.O. Box 1881, Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881, USA;2. Carroll University, College of Nursing, 100 N. East Avenue, Waukesha, WI 53186, USA;3. University of San Diego Hahn School of Nursing and Health Science, 5998 Alcala Park, San Diego, CA 92110, USA |
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Abstract: | As part of a senior leadership class in an undergraduate baccalaureate nursing program in the northeastern United States, we conducted an experiential, theater-based workshop designed to increase student awareness of the micro-dynamics of power and the enactment of status in their day-to-day lives. These exercises allowed student participants to embody status and power and understand it in ways that they did not after simply completing assigned readings. At the conclusion of the workshop the participants were asked to reflect on their status habits and the consequences of these habits in a single hand-written page. The participants' reflections showed two interesting trends. The first is that a relatively short workshop dramatically increased participants' awareness of power and status as ever present, including a substantial normative move from seeing using power as being a generally bad thing that can be justified in the interests of the organization's mission to a more neutral stance that power and status are at work in all of our interactions. The second trend that emerged was the tendency for participants to focus on agency-based explanations of power dynamics. |
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Keywords: | Power Status Theatre Nursing student |
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