Higher education policies, undergraduate in occupational therapy and teaching of social occupational therapy

• Grant number: 12/13593-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: March 01, 2013
• End date: February 28, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy
• Principal Investigator: Roseli Esquerdo Lopes
• Grantee: Livia Celegati Pan
• Host Institution: Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde (CCBS). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research proposal intends to analyze the implementation and the reflection the current higher education policies adopted in Brazil, in particular the Program of Support for the Plans of Restructuring and Expansion of Federal Universities - REUNI and the Nacional Program of Reorientation of Vocational Training in Health - Pró-Saúde for the Pedagogical Political Projects of the Undergraduation Courses in Occupational Therapy of the Federal Institutions of Higher Education (IFES), and more specifically for teaching in the area of social occupational therapy. These policies, respectively, promoted the expansion of courses and vacancies in IFES and redirection of formation of professionals in the health area, with implications also for the training of occupational therapists. Will be studied the Undergraduation Courses in Occupational Therapy from IFES functioning, with a focus in relation to their Pedagogical Political Projects, and specifically education in social occupational therapy. The transformations that have occurred in the formation of occupational therapists, resulting from these policies in institutions of great importance in the national scenario, both in terms of absolute number as the academic production is a fundamental element in the discussion of consolidation of social occupational therapy. Produce parts of these sources is expected from this research. (AU)