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 verify how the use and potentialities of Active Methodologies – AM - can contribute and be configured into 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, where the NEPS are located. Research Subjects: Eight coordinators of the NEPS of the services of the State of Paraíba belonging to I and II Macro-regions, I Health Macro-region with headquarters in João Pessoa, II Health Macro-region with headquarters in Campina Grande. Data Collection Period: July 27, 2021 to August 17, 2021. The collected data were analyzed using the thematic content analysis method, from which four categories resulted: Characterization of the NEPS Participants; Conception of permanent health education of the NEPS coordinators, Implementation and development of the NEPS and Potentialities of the use of Active Methodologies in the NEPS educational actions. Results: The categories provided the debate about how the use and potentialities of Active Methodologies can contribute to the (re)signification of the Permanent Education Centers, of the State of Paraíba. Final considerations: Data analysis made it possible to reach the objectives of the study, especially regarding the possibilities of active methodologies to contribute to changes in the training proposals for professionals of the Nuclei of Continuing Education in Health - NEPS, of the Health Services of the State of Paraíba. Thus, a course is proposed that may contribute to changes in the training proposals for professionals of the NEPS of the health services of the state of Paraíba and promote the debate on the meaning and re-signification of the proposals of continuing education in health in the light of references on Active Methodologies.