Pesquisa em enfermagem: por uma pedagogia da ética!

Abstract

There's no teaching without research and no research without teaching, states Paulo Freire in his small, but excellent work Pedagogia da Autonomia: Saberes Necessários à Prática Educativa (a) (Pedagogy of Autonomy: Knowledge Required to the Educational Practice). This is so because, according to the author, it is part of the nature of the teaching activity inquiry, search and research, thus in [the professor's] permanent formation it is necessary that he/she perceives and assumes himself/ herself as a researcher. It is possible to make an interesting connection between teaching practices in general and nursing practice in particular in what refers to the relationship between cognoscente subject and cognoscible object. Thus we may apply to our work in Nursing Freire's phrase for the educational practice: I research in order to verify, by verifying I intervene, by intervening I educate [others] and educate myself.