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Direct linkSavishinsky, Joel S. – Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 2007
The purpose of this article is to describe an innovative teaching method in which American undergraduate students were asked to write haiku-a Japanese poetry form-about the lives of nursing home residents. Drawing on both their own experiences and May Sarton's novel "As We Are Now", class members created poems about institutionalization that…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Teaching Methods, Poetry, Nursing Homes
