Pedagogy of care: A new perspective for nursing

Abstract

Nursing has care as the object of its study, deepening and action. Pedagogy, education. Nursing and Pedagogy complement each other in a theoretical and practical sense when dealing with their objects. Two questions are central to the discussion presented in this problematization in a bibliographic research format, based on a qualitative approach, whose analysis was based on the assumptions of documentary research: is there a specific pedagogy of nursing? Could we talk about pedagogy in nursing when it comes to caring and educating it? The article intends to reflect on the Pedagogy of Care, signaling new horizons for nursing science as a field of knowledge that performs, in its practices, health education, in the midst of formal processes of education via Pedagogy. We understand that there is a Pedagogy in Nursing, that is, theoretical assumptions of pedagogy science underpin the educational practice of Nursing, giving body to educational action, even in the health sphere.