Teacher training for health promotion in Elementary School through a didactic manual

• Autor(a) principal: Brito, Antonia Janieiry Ribeiro da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Nascimento, Karla Angélica Silva do
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Práticas Educativas, Memórias e Oralidades
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.uece.br/index.php/revpemo/article/view/10083
• topic: Manual didático; Promoção da saúde; Formação de professores; Educação e saúde; Didactic manual; Health promotion; Teacher training; Education; Educación

The study aims to analyze the contributions of a didactic manual about the actions of prevention and health care in the initial training of teachers. The research was conducted in three phases: i) survey: application of the online questionnaire with students of the Pedagogy course and elaboration of the manual; ii) implementation of the manual through a hybrid minicourse; iii) description, data organization and analysis of the validation of the manual by the Pedagogy students. Participants' knowledge about health at school was minimal before they learned about the manual and experienced the activities in the minicourse. After the minicourse, the students recognized the importance of the study about health - body, oral and mental hygiene, and body practices. Despite this, most thought that the health theme should be dealt with only by specialists but understood that teachers and schools play an important role in health promotion. The results show that the manual broadened the students' knowledge and skills regarding health for its promotion at school. Therefore, the concern with the health theme must overcome the reductionist way it is seen and be incorporated into the curriculum of undergraduate students so that, in this way, the theme of Health in Education can be developed clearly and with propriety.