MÉTODOS DE APRENDIZAGEM ATIVA NA GRADUAÇÃO EM ENFERMAGEM DO PERÍODO NOTURNO: COMPREENSÃO DOS DOCENTES

Abstract

Higher education in health has been undergoing changes in the area of knowledge, incorporating teaching strategies focused on the student, as indicated by the ?? National Curricular Guidelines. Active Learning Methods may have the potential to promote coordination between universities and health services, favoring a sense of social responsibility and commitment to citizenship to promote integral human health. Objective to analyze teachers' understanding of the possibilities for developing Active Learning Methods in Nursing Undergraduate courses in the evening period. Method Qualitative and field research, with 21 professors of the Nursing Courses in the evening period of the two Institutions, through semi-structured interviews. The data were interpreted using the Content Analysis technique, in the Thematic modality, developed in three stages: Pre-analysis, Exploration of the material and Treatment of results, inference and interpretation. Results From the analysis of the data obtained, four thematic categories were structured: 1 - Student-centered learning - Problem-Based Learning; Student protagonism; Teacher as facilitator and mediator of the teaching and learning process  2 - Factors that enable Active Learning at night - Initial leveling and appreciation of students' prior knowledge; Teacher Training; Use of Digital Information and Communication Technologies; Review of the PPC according to the DCN; Infrastructure, 3 - Factors that hinder Active Learning at night- Traditional teacher training; Large number of students to carry out visits, internships for observation and correlation of theory with practice; Difficulties of teachers and students and 4 - Suggestions for developing Active Learning Methods at night - Problematization; Flipped classroom; TBL; Simulation; Interdisciplinarity. The different strategies described for training indicated their possibilities in teaching nursing at night and demonstrated that teachers are moving towards understanding and developing Active Learning