title: [Health educational praxis of the male nurses of the Family Health Strategy].
abstract: This study has a qualitative character and aims to analyze the educational praxis of male nurses of the Family Health Strategy in the city of Sobral, Ceará, Brazil. The data was collected using semi-structured interviews applied to 16 male nurses, besides the observation of this group. All data was organized using the collective subject discourse technique. The dialectic hermeneutic was adopted as a theoretical-methodological referential. We conclude that, in a hegemonic way, the educational processes in health are graded in a behaviorist approach, eminently preventive, in which strategies and resources favor the unidirectionality and non-dialogical of the process. In spite of that, we identified a critical-reflexive movement among male nurses, in the sense of questioning the way of how the educational processes are developed. Anti-hegemonic actions were also evidenced, like the use of educational methods graded in the community's needs and real problems, in which the subjects of approach are built in a horizontal way and in partnership with the community. Thus, the findings of this study show a tension between two educational models: the traditional and the dialogical.
authors.affiliation: Laboratório de Pesquisa Social, Educação Transformadora e Saúde Coletiva (Labsus), Universidade Estadual Vale do Acaraú, Sobral, CE, 62041-040. cheportela@gmail.com
authors.forename: Cheila Portela
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Silva
authors.forename: Maria Socorro de Araújo
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Dias
authors.forename: Angelo Brito
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Rodrigues
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D005192:Family Health; D006266:Health Education / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009727:Nurses, Male