Formazione infermieristica e metodi creativi : riflessioni su genere e professioni di cura

The article illustrates and critically examines the experimentation of an educational and research workshop addressing nursing students aimed to make them reflect on professional and gender identity and practices in their future work. The workshop involved 16 mixedgender participants and combined creative techniques and "traditional" qualitative methods, making the students coproducers of research results. Through photoelicitation, photovoice, focus groups and videomaking, the students were able to question how the gender dimension influences professional practices and their own and society's representations of the job they are going to perform. At the end, the article reflects on the potentialities and limits of these training courses and of creative research methods more generally. [Publisher's text].