Morinian Complexity and the Nursing Curriculum

Abstract

This scientific essay argues about the relevance of includingEdgar Morin’s complex thinking in the Nursing curriculumdevelopment. The curriculum determines the professionalprofile of Nursing teachers and future nurses, comprisingthe cognitive, moral, clinical, affective, research and tradeunion competencies necessary for professional survival.Complexity allows us to build new creative and criticalcurricula, with multidisciplinary thinking, connectingfragmented knowledge, defending one’s own culturalidentity, based on the Philosophy of care, and responding,in parallel, to the challenges of a politically imposedglobalization, which is elective. The design of curriculathat respond to the demands of the 21st century requirescompetent curriculum engineering able to triangulateNursing, Education and Philosophy, given that citizensare been trained and not only specialized workers. Thesciences of complexity humanize and complement the Cartesian and positivist scientific approach, influenced by the patriarchal paradigm.The curriculum changes its structure by including complex thinking references.