This study aimed at understanding the educational practices operated in the Graduate Nursing Program of the Center of Sciences of the Health of the Federal University of Paraíba - UFPB and at identifying the produced contradictions, to the light of emancipatory pedagogic references and also non-emancipatory ones. This is a study of qualitative approach. The teachers and students of the Graduate Nursing Program of UFPB were the subject of the study. The semi-structured interview was used, and the analysis of the data happened through the technique of speech analysis. The evidenced empiric categories were: Contradictions in the Process of Formation of Teachers and Influence of the Educational Emancipatory ando non-Emancipatory Practices. It was verified that the teachers' Educational Practice is found in bases of non-Emancipatory, fact ratified by the speech of the students.
Education, nursing; Education, nursing, graduate; Nursing faculty practice
