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Educational action research on Facebook®: combining leisure and learning
Célia Maria Gomes Labegalini1, Iara Sescon Nogueira1, Daysi Mara Murio Ribeiro Rodrigues1
1Universidade Estadual de Maringá (UEM), Departamento de Enfermagem, Programa de Pós-graduação em Enfermagem. Maringá, Paraná, Brasil.
Objective:
To analyse the path of dialogical education in leisure and mental health in social media.
Method:
Action research based on the theoretical-methodological framework of Paulo Freire, conducted with 11 nursing students of a public university in the state of Paraná, Brazil, during seven days of June 2015, in a closed group on Facebook®. The dialogues were called, 'Virtual Culture Circles' and preceded by self-administered questionnaires that addressed the relationship between leisure and mental health. The data were analysed in an interpretive way, using the encoding and decoding proposed by Freire.
Results:
The students related leisure to pleasurable activities and quality of life; however, it is not widely or critically practiced in their personal lives or education.
Conclusions:
The Virtual Culture Circles provided emancipatory dialogues and a critical analysis of the subject matter, with possible repercussions on the personal and professional lives of the subjects.