This is a qualitative, descriptive, exploratory and analytical research, with documentary basis. The objective was to characterize and analyze teaching trends found in scientific articles related to the topic Education in Nursing, captured from the publication of the researchers of Research Groups in Nursing Education of the State of São Paulo from 2004 to 2010. We identified the following teaching trends: Traditional, Renewed, Tecnicist, Liberating and Critical Social-Contents. We analyzed 131 studies, of which 46.56% are graded in trends centrally marked by political and social concerns. He noticed a movement in search of intense transformation of Nursing Education within Research Groups. A large concentration of studies grounded in liberating tendencies or the ambition to adopt such postures, reveals a positive factor of Research Groups in Nursing Education.
Nursing Education; Nursing Research; Research in Nursing Education
