PEDAGOGICAL PSYCHODRAMA: NURSING TEACHING STRATEGY

Abstract

The current context of Brazilian undergraduate nursing teaching points out the need to reconsider professional education,
involving curricular changes with an emphasis on the articulation between theory and practice and on active teaching strategies that focus on experiences, with a view to a critical, humane and creative performance. It should be highlighted that the International Commission’s Report for UNESCO on education for the XXIst century (Delors, 2001) indicates four essential basic pillars to guide educational policies in all countries: learning to know, learning to live together, learning to do and learning to be. This study aims to reflect on the use of pedagogical psychodrama as a strategy for nursing teaching. The application of psychodrama to education allows for the development of the necessary spontaneity, creativity and sensibility for group work exercises, involving the understanding of human relations. Day-to-day work in the health sector requires professionals to mobilize resources and knowledge to recognize the particularities of each situation, which is related to the development of spontaneity and creativity.