A reflective look at democracy and higher nursing education between 1978 and 1981

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.1594892401109

• Palavras-chave: democracy; nursing education; higher education; curriculum.

• Keywords: democracy; nursing education; higher education; curriculum.

• Abstract:

  The aim of this study was to reflect on the relationship between democracy and higher nursing education in the period between 1978 and 1981, a period of military dictatorship in Brazil. We believe that this reflection, by highlighting the problems of nursing education at that time, can contribute to the process of consolidating teaching excellence in the training of nurses and raise questions that may, in some way, point to the current challenges of nursing education. From this perspective, this reflection has shown that one of the biggest challenges facing nursing education in 1978, which persists today, is overcoming disciplinary fragmentation and the centrality of biological science disciplines to the detriment of social science disciplines, which may be interfering with the consolidation of a nursing education capable of training autonomous, critical and purposeful professionals who transform the reality around them.