Pedagogical reasoning and action of professors of nursing:expressions in different educational contexts

Abstract

Objective: to report sources of knowledge base for teaching, categories of knowledge base for teaching and phases of pedagogical reasoning and action of professors of higher education in Nursing in public and private universities in the South region of Brazil. Method: a collective study of instrumental cases with a qualitative approach. The cases involve the pedagogical reasoning and action of two professors of Nursing. Data collection incorporated documents, interviews and observation analyzed using the constant comparative method. The analysis gave rise to two metacategories, termed public case and private case, and their transversal axes: relationships between sources and knowledge base for teaching, relationships between categories of knowledge base for teaching, and relationships between knowledge base for teaching and the Model of Pedagogical Reasoning and Action. Results: there are distinct relationships between sources, knowledge base for teaching and phases of the Model in the cases' pedagogical reasoning and action. Conclusion: emphasis is placed on hierarchization and linking in the relationships between Shulman's constructs and encouragement to reflection, and broadening of the sources of knowledge base for teaching as a source of lecturer training is suggested.