Culture and technology: literature and development of critical analysis among undergraduates students of technology in healthcare area at UNIFESP

• Grant number: 14/10554-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: November 01, 2014
• End date: May 31, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Education
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Paulo Schor
• Grantee: Marlon Ribeiro da Silva
• Host Institution: Escola Paulista de Medicina (EPM). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus São Paulo. São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

With the candent debate about humanistic formation in healthcare area at sight, this project has the objective of taking the discussion to the technological field, where the professional and undergraduate students responsible for the production of technological innovation in healthcare area are inserted. To this end, this project has the goal of proposing a humanistic education starting from the reading and discussion of literature classics at the Humanities Laboratory at EPM-UNIFESP, investigating, therefore, the potential of an aesthetic and reflexive experience with literature as a mean to foment the humanistic formation of technology professional in healthcare. We'll adopt qualitative methods involving Participative Observation and Oral History of Life. This experiment will be realized among technology in healthcare undergraduate students at Universidade Federal de São Paulo. (AU)