Defiance and Education for Leadership: A Response

Abstract

I can identify with the author's argument that teachers in faculties of nursing can and should prepare their students to face a work situation different from the ideal they have been taught. She adds, "New graduates will through self-integration have developed some armor to protect themselves in the role of deviance". It is difficult to discern how teachers are to help their students or how the self-integration process is to go on. The author has interesting and important things to say, but stops developing them before full understanding on the reader's part is possible. Perhaps she left some provocative statements undeveloped so a debate could be started.