Family nursing training: a theoretical study based on Freirean assumptions
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https://doi.org/10.12957/reuerj.2025.90311Keywords:
Family, Family Nursing, Education, Nursing, Teaching, Professional-Family RelationsAbstract
Objective: this study reflects on the training of Family Nursing students at the undergraduate level from the perspective of Freirean principles. Content: a reflective theoretical study anchored in the principles of Paulo Freire and current and relevant literature on Family Nursing education. The theoretical articulation between Freirean principles (liberating education; dialogicity; conscientization; problematization; humanization; and praxis) and Family Nursing education is relevant to overcoming the technocratic and individualized training of nurses. This approach emphasizes the interdependence between theory and practice in which the family system should be considered as a strategic resource in the health-disease process, focusing on a humanized, transformative, and liberating education. Final considerations: it is necessary to implement changes in nursing education, reviewing program content, syllabi, curricula, and extension activities in order to promote collaborative and contextual practices that incorporate the family system as a key element in the health-disease process and in teaching.
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