title: [Challenges in the implementation of a curriculum by competencies].
abstract: This article aims at describing and analyzing the experience of teachers of a state school located in Pernambuco in the implementation of the curriculum by competencies in the technical nursing course. National guidelines for technical-level professional education were used as a theoretical referential. The technical nursing course was organized in four non-terminal modules, with a growing complexity in contents and specific competencies. Among the greatest difficulties found during curricular re-structuring, there are the teachers' and students' resistance concerning the adoption of new pedagogical practices and of a methodology to assess the constructed competencies. With the adoption of a new curriculum, there was the qualitative growth of the teachers and students' body, and an increase in the autonomy of the school to set out and update curricular components.
authors.affiliation: Curso Técnico em Enfermagem do CEFET-PE/Unidade de Pesqueira. evanisia@terra.com.br
authors.forename: Evanisia Assis Goes
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Araújo
authors.forename: Valquiria Bezerra
authors.initials: VB
authors.lastname: Barbosa
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D011361:Professional Competence