PBL, PROBLEMS THAT BRING SOLUTIONS

Abstract

This text aims a presentation about the Problem-Based Learning (PBL), a method used in the Psychology course of Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública (Bahia School of Medicine and Public Health), since 2009 through the curriculum components that comprise the Development Lifecycle. We present the main ideas about the PBL method in order to demonstrate, from experience in the course of Psychology of Bahiana (Bahia School of Medicine and Public Health), how this can contribute to its theoretical and procedural proposition for the development of a new culture of learning, in which students are active in constructing knowledge, developing autonomy and criticality, and teachers, challenged to leave the university master's discourse, can occupy a new position as mediators guardians of the educational process. The process of teaching and learning, according to the PBL approach, follows seven steps and uses text-problems related to the everyday life of cities and people as instigator instruments of the student's desire to learn, which formulates goals and develops research strategies with the purpose of 'solving' the problems posed by the teacher-tutors. The text is permeated by reflections on the experience with the PBL method in that course and the demands placed by new contemporary paradigms.