POTENTIALITIES OF ACTIVE METHODOLOGIES FOR THE (RE)SIGNIFICATION OF THE PERMANENT EDUCATION CENTERS, IN THE STATE OF PARAÍBA.
Permanent Education in Health; Meaningful Learning; Active Methodologies.
The present study aims to understand how the use and potentialities of active methodologies can contribute to and become potential strategies for the (re) signification of the Continuing Education Centers - NEPS, in the health services of the State of Paraíba. Method: Descriptive, exploratory, qualitative approach. Research setting: Paraíba State hospital network, more precisely the state hospitals, where the NEPS are located. Research subjects: 8 coordinators of the NEPS of the services of the State of Paraíba belonging to I and II Macro-regions. Data analysis pointed to four categories: Characterization of the NEPS participants; Concept of continuing education in health of the coordinators of the NEPS, Implementation and development of the NEPS and Potentialities of the use of active methodologies in the NEPS educational actions. Final considerations: Despite the coordinators' efforts to develop the activities of the centers, some weaknesses were perceived both in the understanding of the NEPS and in the methodological approaches of the educational actions. Thus, we propose a course that can contribute to changes in the training proposals for professionals of the NEPS in the health services of the state of Paraíba, and promote the debate about the meaning and re-signification of the proposals of continuing education in health in the light of references to active methodologies.