A fisioterapia como prática híbrida, as mudanças do currículo e o perfil profissional

• Autor(a) principal: Sumiya, Alberto [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/122130
• topic: Latour, Bruno - 1947; Universidade Estadual de Londrina; Physical therapy; Fisioterapia; Formação profissional; Fisioterapeutas - Formação; Universidades e faculdades - Curriculos

This thesis is an approaching of Bruno Latour’s thought to the physiotherapist training issue regarding the concept of hybrid in order to contribute to deepening of the subject within physiotherapy practice. The analysis is focused on the relationship between nature and culture as parts of the same fabric, which are understood as separated to modern science. The hypothesis is that physiotherapy practice is hybrid, because it exposes the inevitable characteristics of mixtures. Therefore, the main objective of this study is to evidence from the curriculum changes the conditions that favor the proliferation of hybrids during the construction of professional identity. The research’s methodological procedures involved ethnography, documental analysis and interviews. The participating institutions were the University of Londrina (Brazil - Paraná) and Keele University (The UK). Data analysis inferred three categories: Professional profile: among curricula, guidelines and programme specifications; 2) Field of power: among interests, boundaries and possibilities of curricula structures; 3) Curriculum integration: the value of the mixtures in the physiotherapist education. The analysis of these categories was developed following a reasoning that demonstrated different conceptions about professional profile, evocating past, present and future. The field and its tensions, showed us resistances, disputes, differences of social capitals and how they might influence/modify the trajectory of the curricula. The curriculum integration condensed the expectations of explaining the physiotherapy knowledge as underpinned by hybrid concept, because it exposes the interaction of contents which leads to mixtures. The concept of hybrid represents the possibility of redefining the scientific relations of physiotherapy with its therapeutic practice, taking into account that human and technique’s domains cannot be separated clearly. Accept this mixture would...