Service-learning: an eye-opening experience that provokes emotion and challenges stereotypes.

摘要: Descriptive phenomenology was used to explore the lived experience of nursing students in service-learning clinical placement working with families who are homeless. Fourteen from two different courses involving a family homeless shelter participated interviews. Six constituent descriptions were identified thematic analysis: eye-opening realize effects homelessness on families; feeling intense emotions that sometimes hard express; realizing both and similar have housing; challenging transforming assumptions, perceptions, stereotypes; importance reflection; discovering new aspects role. This research contributes existing knowledge about relationships between emotional learning, cross-cultural transformational developing caring as way being, well provides valuable information improving activities.