Abstract
Objectiveto understand the meanings of the collegiate deliberations attributed by its members on an undergraduate nursing course.MethodGrounded Theory, interviews being held with 30 participants, making up 4 sample groups, between January and June 2012, in a public higher education institution.Result5 categories emerged, indicating the phenomenon and weaving the paradigmatic model: Understanding the experience of the complex relationships and interactions in the deliberations of collegiate management in nursing: intertwining divergences, convergences, dialogs, collectivities and diversities. This deliberative process presents various meanings involving discussion, and divergent, convergent and complementary positions, through dialog, commitment and negotiation.Conclusionthe deliberations in the collegiate of nursing, intertwining dialogs, collectivities and diversities, mold the complex relational fabrics.
Highlights
Globalization, technology and information have strongly influenced the human living process, with repercussions in the social, educational, political, economic and cultural spheres, while at the same time promoting new constructions and discussions regarding university management, both in the political sphere and in the academic context(1).The complexity of contemporaneous society has encouraged the appearance of new processes and models of education, curricula and active methodologies in the process of teaching, learning and managing through new managerial approaches – such as, for example, collegiate management
The accounts reveal the meanings attributed to the collegiate experience, such as evaluation, organization and resolutive capability: The meaning of the collegiate is to evaluate the course so as to know its strengths and weaknesses (GA02)
Each participant was singular and plural in giving his or her perceptions, understandings and meanings regarding the collegiate and deliberative experience, such that the inference is possible that the collegiate management is immersed in a web of multiple, distinct and complex meanings
Summary
The complexity of contemporaneous society has encouraged the appearance of new processes and models of education, curricula and active methodologies in the process of teaching, learning and managing through new managerial approaches – such as, for example, collegiate management. The university is characterized as a privileged locus which favors the production, appropriation and socialization of knowledge, so as to aggregate, foster, build and encourage the production of science, technology and innovations, with a view to driving individuals’ training and qualification. Seen from this angle, the university(3) is part of a civil society able to guarantee liberty, equality, justice and the possibility to live well. The university is developed through the intertwining of its relational and functional dynamics; with the formal and administrative structure supporting this set(4)
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