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Paulo Freire’s culture circles: contributions to nursing research, teaching, and professional practice

Círculo cultural de Paulo Freire: contribuciones a la investigación, la docencia y la práctica profesional en enfermería

ABSTRACT

Objectives:

to share the contributions of culture circles for teaching, research, and professional nursing practice, having as framework Paulo Freire’s Research Itinerary.

Methods:

this is an experience report of a culture circle, with participation of three professors and ten students, enrolled in a course of a Graduate Program in Nursing in southern Brazil. In this culture circle, a tree was built in which the roots formed the thematic investigation, the stem, coding and decoding, and the leaves, the Research Itinerary critical unveiling.

Results:

participants demonstrated empowerment of Paulo Freire’s assumptions, and building a tree made it possible to discuss in a pleasant and playful way culture circle use in teaching, research, and professional nursing practice.

Final Considerations:

the culture circle promoted reflection and action on nursing praxis, turning Freirean thoughts into something concrete and transforming realities.

Descriptors:
Nursing; Nursing Research; Professional Practice; Culture Circle

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