Learning difficulties in school children: health and education professionals' perceptions.

Objectives: to understand health and education professionals' perceptions regarding children's learning difficulties in public schools.

Methods: qualitative research, of the participatory action type, linked to Paulo Freire's Research Itinerary. Forty-five professionals participated, through interviews and a Virtual Culture Circle.

Reflections of the social determinants of health on school children's learning.

Objective: understanding the repercussions of the social determinants of health on school children's learning, linked to the public-school network, from the point of view of health and education professionals.

Method: qualitative study, participant-action type, articulated to Freire's Research Itinerary, through three moments: Thematic Investigation; Coding and Decoding; Critical Unveiling. The participants were 27 health professionals and 18 education professionals, working in four municipalities of Santa Catarina.

Challenges experienced by Portuguese professionals in humanitude care for institutionalized elderly people during the pandemic.

Objective: To understand the challenges experienced by Portuguese workers in humanitude care for institutionalized elderly people during the pandemic.

Method: This is a qualitative study, supported by reflections on the Humanitude Care Methodology, carried out with workers from different areas in a nursing home for elderly people in Portugal. Data collection took place between September and October 2020, from individual and online interviews.

Flowers and thorns in pregnancy: experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objective: To understand the repercussions of COVID-19 on the path of pregnancy.

Method: Qualitative, participatory action research (PAR) study, based on Paulo Freire's Research Itinerary. A virtual culture circle was held in October 2020, with the participation of 12 pregnant women, living in the South and Southeast regions of Brazil.

COVID-19 vaccination campaign: dialogues with nurses working in Primary Health Care.

Objective: To reflect on the perception of nurses working in Primary Health Care about the development of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign.

Method: This is a participatory action qualitative study, based on the methodological theoretical precepts by Paulo Freire, which consists of three interconnected phases: Thematic Research, Coding and Decoding, and Critical Unveiling. Three virtual Culture Circles were held between February and March 2021, with 11 nurses from Primary Health Care, residing in Santa Catarina, Brazil.

Vulnerability and health promotion of Haitian immigrants: reflections based on Paulo Freire's dialogic práxis.

Objective: To understand the perceptions of Haitian immigrants about the possibilities to promote health, in the face of the vulnerabilities they experience.

Method: This is a qualitative, participatory action study, based on Paulo Freire's Research Itinerary, which has three phases: thematic investigation; encoding and decoding; critical unveiling. Ten Haitian immigrants, students of a public university in Brazil, participated in the Culture Circle.

Health promotion in coping with COVID-19: a Virtual Culture Circle experience.

Objective: To report the experience of a Virtual Culture Circle with Brazilian families about coping with COVID-19, as a space that promotes health during the pandemic.

Method: Experience resulting from an extension action, the Virtual Culture Circle was held based on Paulo Freire's Research Itinerary. It counted with the participation of seven families from different locations in Brazil.

Paulo Freire's culture circles: contributions to nursing research, teaching, and professional practice.

Objectives: to share the contributions of culture circles for teaching, research, and professional nursing practice, having as framework Paulo Freire's Research Itinerary.

Methods: this is an experience report of a culture circle, with participation of three professors and ten students, enrolled in a course of a Graduate Program in Nursing in southern Brazil. In this culture circle, a tree was built in which the roots formed the thematic investigation, the stem, coding and decoding, and the leaves, the Research Itinerary critical unveiling.

Virtual cultural circle: promoting the health of nurses fighting the covid-19.

Objective: To report a virtual Cultural Circle experience implemented with nurses to allow them to dialogue and promote health amidst the pandemic of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Method: Experience report of a virtual Cultural Circle based on Paulo Freire's framework. The stages were correlated to the oil lamp, the symbol of the nursing profession: the lamp body was considered the Thematic Investigation, the lamp support corresponded to Encoding and Decoding, and the light corresponded to Critical Unveiling.

200 Years of Florence and the challenges of nursing practices management in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objective: to analyze the main challenges of nursing in facing Coronavirus Disease-19 under the perspective of nurse managers in the west macro-region of Santa Catarina.

Method: it consists of a qualitative study, whose data collection was done through interviews with nurses who represent the management of health care network in the region. The analysis technique used was the Discourse of the Collective Subject (DCS).