Clássicos da literatura no ensino e na humanização em saúde: a dinâmica do Laboratório de Humanidades (LabHum) nas Leituras de Aldous Huxley e Níkos Kazantzákis

• Ano de defesa: 2017
• Autor(a) principal: Carvalho, Licurgo Lima de [UNIFESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Humanização em saúde; Literatura; Narrativas de saúde; Laboratório de humanidades; Educação em saúde; Saúde Coletiva
• Link de acesso: https://sucupira.capes.gov.br/sucupira/public/consultas/coleta/trabalhoConclusao/viewTrabalhoConclusao.jsf?popup=true&id_trabalho=5094327; http://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/41893

The Laboratory of Humanities (LabHum), created in 2003 at the Federal University of Sao Paulo - Escola Paulista de Medicina (Unifesp-EPM), comprises a discussion group of the classics from universal literature, where a methodologically trained coordinator mediates the meetings to facilitate the sharing of ideas and feelings raised by the readings. This work aimed to understand how the aforementioned LabHum’s dynamic – our research object – especially the discussions arisen by the novels “Brave New World” (Aldous Huxley, 1932) and “Life and Times of Alexis Zorbas” (Nikos Kazantzakis, 1946), reverberated in the individual and/or professional education of participants, seeking to further deepen the reflection on the impact of literature via the proposed methodology. For such purposes, we deployed a qualitative methods approach for data collection based on Participant Observation, and for the analysis of what we termed ‘Experience Reports’ and the Oral Life History Narratives. Hence, at the end of 31 meetings, all 61 participants, ranging from approximately 20 to 65 years of age, were invited to produce written reports on what their participation at such reading and discussion meetings of those novels meant for them – the invitation for students and health professionals was extended to those who also narrated their life history – resulting in 34 Experience Reports and 9 Oral Life History Narratives. These 43 narratives were analysed by Immersion/Crystallisation – a method inspired by Hermeneutic Phenomenology – as we conducted an Interpretative Analysis. The results indicate that the LabHum’s affective dynamic, which stimulates both critical and reflexive thinking from the shared experience of literary reading at a diverse environment, fosters the triggering, at distinct levels of intensity, of experiences of crises and awakening, with a consequent transforming and/or humanising effect. On the other hand, by privileging the reader’s affections and context, the LabHum’s dynamic contributes to the making of literary readers – i.e. altering their reading habits as they learn to bring reading closer to life, and begin to value literary narratives in both their individual and professional education, further awakening for the humanising potential of fictional texts.