Representações sociais e a constituição identitária docente na educação profissional em saúde

Abstract

The present study is part of the Education, Curriculum and Pedagogical Practices research line, linked to the Graduate Program in Education at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). Teaching in Professional Health Education is strongly associated with the professionalization of these teachers mediated by the pillars of the world of work, health, science, education and technology that integrate the different levels and teaching modalities in which these teachers work. This is a descriptive-exploratory study, with a qualitative approach, in which the Theory of Social Representations was used as a theoreticalmethodological contribution, with the objective of analyzing how the social representations that permeate being a teacher in Professional Health Education impact in the identity constitution of the teachers who work in it. In turn, the object of study consisted of the impacts of the social representations of being a teacher of Professional Education in Health in the identity constitution of the teachers who work in it. For data collection, 11 semi-structured interviews were carried out and 25 online questionnaires were applied using google forms with teachers of Professional Health Education at the School of Health, Academic Unit Specialized in Professional Education in the area of health at UFRN, in the city of Natal /RN. The findings of the study were analyzed through the assumptions of the Theory of Social Representations and also through the interpretative path of social representations. The reflection and analysis work was based on the stages of data interpretation, which starts from micro-interpretations in the initial categorization, in search of conclusive interpretation in the general articulation between the theoretical contributions that support the study and the context in which the group is inserted. , considering the fabric of social representation in the identification of relationships that indicate the thought integrated by the participants and the meaning attributed to the object. The description and discussion of the data were carried out from the dialogue with the literature on the subject and also exponents of the field of education, work and health. The results obtained showed two identity matrices: one related to the discourse of care and humanization in health and the other related to the discourse of professionalization of education, focused on critical pedagogies and social change. As the main elements involved in the formation of teacher identity in the EPS, individual and social subjectivity, collective thinking, regularities, identity matrices and tensions inherent to the process of intersection between being a professional in the health area and being a teacher stand out, professional performance at different levels and courses and the inter and intra-individual processes linked to personal and group history, the cultural, academic and professional background of teachers, continuing education in service and the socio-historical and political-cultural context in which it is located intertwined with teaching. Therefore, the thesis is defended that the identity constitution of the EPS teacher is configured in an intersection between the identity of the health professional and the teacher's identity, having as a reference link the meaning attributed to the "public" in these, in the institutional, historical and political context.