Tendências de mudanças em um curso de graduação em fisioterapia de Alagoas

• Autor(a) principal: Teixeira, Raphaela Farias
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal de Alagoas (UFAL)
• Texto Completo: http://www.repositorio.ufal.br/handle/riufal/1332
• topic: Avaliação Institucional; Curriculos; Fisioterapia - Estudo e ensino; Institutional Evaluation; Curriculum; Physiotherapy - Study and teaching; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::MEDICINA

The National Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Physiotherapy (NCG/ Physiotherapy) can bring about significant changes to the concepts of both training and teaching-learning process. This transforming process has imposed great challenges towards the paradigm of completeness for the Institutions of Higher Education (IHE). Strategies for implementation of the guidelines are under construction and still obey the peculiarities of each IHE, permeable to the perceptions of the different actors involved in the process and the local political-economical context. This study aims to identify the changing trends in an undergraduate course in Physical Therapy, in the state of Alagoas, in accordance with the NCG/Physiotherapy. A private IHE from Alagoas, which offers an undergraduate program in physical therapy since 2002, took part in the survey. For data collection, the Wheel method was used, which evaluates the perception of the school stakeholders ( teachers, students, technical and administrative personnel ) about the curriculum and a field diary. In the data analysis, the school was given a typology of changing trends, describing the rationale and evidence perceived by the social actors, and identifying the strengths and weaknesses of their curriculum. For the group, the course was found to be in the innovative-changing typology, with traditional trends, showing little progress toward the incorporation of the NCG/Physiotherapy references and important critical rubs that hinder the implementation of recommended changes. The exercise of self-assessment provides grants for strategic planning of actions as it both enables the reflection on the strengths and weaknesses of the course and reveals itself as an important inducer of changes in quality education. From the results of this research, a product of intervention in the format of technical report was prepared and entitled "Institutional Self-Assessment: in search of ways to transformation " with the aim of encouraging the continuity of the self-evaluation process, as recommended by the NCG/Physiotherapy.