Saskia Eschenbacher
Akkon University of Applied Human Sciences, New York
Biography
Saskia Eschenbacher is Professor of Adult Learning and Counseling at Akkon University of Applied Human Sciences, in Berlin and currently a Visiting Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, in New York City. She earned a Ph.D. (2018) in Education from the University of Augsburg. From 2011-2018, she worked as a research and teaching associate at the Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and at the University of Augsburg. In 2015 and 2018, she spent terms as a Visiting Researcher at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Her main research areas are transformative learning theory/transformative education.
Karla Bensmann completed her professional training at the nursing school of the Red Cross in Nuremberg and graduated from the Protestant University of Nuremberg in Nursing Science. She works at Charité Berlin in the palliative and cancer care unit. Currently she works at the palliative care unit for COVID-19 patients and is finishing her degree in Social Work at the Akkon Universiy of Applied Human Sciences in Berlin. Her expertise is in health care and nursing, she is interested in transformative learning and neuroscience
Abstract
Abstract : Nursing Education: Is there a need to learn transformatively in the age of Covid-19?