Interactions between the epistemological perspective of nursing educators and participants in educational programs: limits and opportunities toward the development of qualification processes for the promotion of self-care in health

Abstract

Research-action aimed at exploring and transforming teaching-learning processes performed by nurses focused on the empowerment of mature adults toward self-care. An educational program was launched in two different locations, where educational sessions and post-educational reflexive meetings with nursing professionals were carried out. The selection and sampling of participants - nurses and mature adults - was intentionally pointed out. Employed methodologies were as follows: participatory observation (video recording of sessions); in-depth interviews; and reflexive sessions about educational practices. Data analysis was performed by means of the constant comparative method. Results pointed to the current coexistence of different educational interests concerning the healthcare education, the need for building dialogues between the participants' and nurses' frameworks, and the need for advancing toward more autonomous epistemological reference points that are able to forge healthcare-based dialogical learning pillars.