A percepção dos docentes de ensino médio de enfermagem sobre a construção do ser professor

Abstract

This study was carried out to broach the development undergone by the nursing teacher and his/her pedagogical activities in times of changes brought about in the field of education within the context of modern society. Many teachers, as they begin their educational activities in the field of health, do not attend courses to achieve pedagogical qualification or relevant undergraduate courses in education. In one s professional development he/she becomes a teacher when he/she identifies himself/herself with a discipline he/she became fond of while attending an undergraduate course and so he/she ends by performing the function of a teacher based on the traditional teaching-learning process. In spite of the growing number of schools and high level technical professionals in the field of nursing in Brazil, it seems that people are not concerned with the quality of their teaching, since few researches have been carried out concerning those professionals and their background development. In face of that issue, this study was carried out to raise the representation of senior high school nursing teachers about their development process. The research at issue was based on the theory of Social Representations, characterized as a descriptive exploratory quantitative-qualitative based approach. The subjects studied in the research comprised 12 (twelve) nursing teachers at senior high school level working in a private school located in Presidente Prudente. A questionnaire was applied presenting open and closed questions, after asking for their authorization, an explanation about its social and academic contributions, and the signing of the Term of Free and Conscious Consent. The information about the characterization of the participants was presented as a quantitative-based research. The qualitative data collected were interpreted in the light of content analysis. The outcomes show that the real development process undergone by the nursing teacher was represented by his/her experience in realizing himself/herself as such. Most of the teachers believe that proficiency in teaching involves putting in motion skills such as knowledge, attitudes, and ingenuity. Concerning the teaching practice, they try to pass on proficiency to their students, resources such as the capacity to articulate one s wisdom; they use group dynamics, reading and research as teaching procedures, and they carry out a formative and global assessment. From such outcomes, some possibilities stand out, items such as teaching qualification for those who are in need of it, the school seriously engaged in furthering its teachers qualification, and activities which favor the association between scientific knowledge, ingenuity, and attitude centered in the student s reality.