Inventive Learning: A Study of a Proposal for Training of Health Professionals

• Grant number: 16/01507-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• Start date: August 01, 2016
• End date: January 31, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Education - Educational Teaching and Learning
• Principal Investigator: Viviane Santalucia Maximino
• Grantee: Viviane Santalucia Maximino
• Host Investigator: Susan Kelly
• Host Institution: Instituto de Saúde e Sociedade (ISS). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Baixada Santista. Santos , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Goldsmiths, University of London, England

Abstract

AbstratctThe professional education in health has been questioned in Brazil in relation to the content that addresses, the methods used and also for the training aspects, which are usually neglected. Not only in Brazil, many authors have pointed out that technical rationality occupied space from other important issues in this case. Beyond it, an effective intervention in the processes of health and illness must be completed with critical reflection on the attention of the subject's context, including network resources, the subjective factors of everyone involved, ethical and political issues, among others. The need to train professionals for the Brazilian health system puts us interesting challenges as we are forced to extend the themes and to invent new teaching methods, targeting this professional suitable for a public system with universal access. Using the theoretical frameworks of Inventive Learning developed by Kastrup (2004, 2008, 2013), this research aims to describe and analyze innovative pedagogical proposals that have been used at the Federal University of Sao Paulo campus Santos, hoping to contribute to the systematization and better understanding learning processes in higher education in health.