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Facilitating teaching and learning of teratogens: Using alcohol and drug neonate simulators in Further and Higher Education.

Khan, H. and Pourzanjani, P., 2022. Facilitating teaching and learning of teratogens: Using alcohol and drug neonate simulators in Further and Higher Education. Psychology Teaching Review, 28 (1).

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Abstract

Drug and alcohol neonate simulators were used to highlight the effects of substance misuse on prenatal development within lifespan development modules to 61 Psychology undergraduates and 12 sixth-form Health and Social Care students. A mixed method approach was used considering both knowledge development and perceptions of experiential hands-on learning. Student knowledge of the effects of drugs and alcohol on prenatal development was assessed before and after an interactive session on teratogenesis utilising neonate simulators demonstrating these effects. With this experiential learning approach, the statistical analysis combining both groups showed increased knowledge after the interactive session, and the students perceived this enhanced understanding to be a direct result of hands-on interaction with the neonate simulators. The researchers encourage the use of neonate simulators as good practice that can be effectively incorporated into the psychology and other health-related teaching contexts to facilitate knowledge on teratogenesis.

Item Type:Article
ISSN:0965-948X
Additional Information:Funding: This study was funded by the Solent University Learning and Teaching Institute SEED funding.
Uncontrolled Keywords:Creative pedagogy, lifespan development, health education, neonate simulators, teratogens
Group:Faculty of Health & Social Sciences
ID Code:36716
Deposited By: Symplectic RT2
Deposited On:07 Mar 2022 12:49
Last Modified:09 May 2022 15:58

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