Diretrizes curriculares nacionais da odontologia e análise dos projetos pedagógicos dos cursos do estado de São Paulo
Resumen
The National Curricular Guidelines (DCN) of the 2002 Dentistry Undergraduate
course are guidelines to be observed in curricular organization that must be
necessarily adopted by all higher education institutions (HEI). The overall
objective of this study was to analyze the pedagogical projects of the courses
(PPC) Dental Public Universities of the State of São Paulo (SP) in the light of
DCN. This research is qualitative. The study subjects were five dental courses
of SP who had their PPC reformulated after the DCN. The first collection of
information was through secondary data obtained from the PPS of each
educational institution. The documentary analysis of PPC courses was held in
the light of DCN for graduation in dentistry and PPC courses were analyzed
using an array of analytical categories. The eight analytical categories used in
the analysis of PPC were divided into two areas: 1. Professional profile (general
profile, health care, health management and health education) and 2 Course
structure (organization of the course, design of teaching learning, teaching
methods and learning and assessment). The second source of information
consisted of primary data collected through semi-structured interview with the
five coordinators of the courses, defined as the study subjects. The semi-
structured interviews were conducted in person with three coordinators and
through Skype with two coordinators of the courses, and were composed of
questions about PPC and student education from the perspective of DCN and
acting for the NHS. Qualitative analysis of the interviews took place from the
content analysis technique, thematic modality defined by Bardin. The analysis
of PPC in the light of DCN demonstrated suitability in general, with some
observations regarding verbatim parts of the DCN in PPC, not matching the
reality of course, little detail in relation to health management at all PPC
analyzed and teaching methodologies learning and assessment still on
traditional modes of education in relation to the powers described in DCN.