[Changes in work and nursing education a perspective of popular and health education].

This paper discusses the relationship between popular health education presuppositions and nursing education and work. It is divided into three parts: a presentation of Popular Education end Health field, with a brief historic, focusing some theoretical and methodological principles; discussion on pedagogic challenges related to nursing work and education, based on the curriculum of Faculty of Nursing - State University of Rio de Janeiro; and reflection about the potentiality of the insertion of theoretical-methodological elements of popular education and health field in nursing undergraduate curriculum as a way of supporting a critical-reflexive perspective in education, giving answers to health reality challenges, and to fortify pedagogic dimension of professional exercise towards democratic advances of Brazilian Health Care System.