Virtual Culture Circle as an arena promoting youth empowerment in health

• Autor(a) principal: Barros, Mariana Boulitreau Siqueira Campos
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Silva, Rayane Gomes Medeiros da, Silva, Ana Cláudia Cavalcante da, Rocha, Luana Padilha da, Menezes, Maria Lúcia Neto de, Bushatsky, Magaly, Monteiro, Estela Maria Leite Meirelles
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Estudos Universitários (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufpe.br/revistas/index.php/estudosuniversitarios/article/view/250280
• topic: culture circle; health education; empowerment; círculo de cultura; educação em saúde; empoderamento; adolescente

Educational practices imply the empowerment of adolescents to streng-then their voices in decision-making and behavioral changes in individual and collective health. Based on that, through an experience report with adolescents in the context of social vulnerabilities in Recife-PE, during a period of social isolation, this paper aims to encourage adolescents to develop youth empowerment in health through virtual culture circles. Therefore the culture circles proposed to discuss, in a virtual format, five themes: “Being a teenager”; “The adolescent’s role in the family, at school, and in the community”; “Youth vulnerabilities’’; “Education according to Paulo Freire and health education”; and “Empowerment for the promotion of individual and collective health, and social class”. The activities occurred during moments of searching for a favorable en-vironment for the dialogicity and free expression of the adolescents from drawing-story, podcast, poems, and the final construction of a journal. Thus, the adolescents approached educational technologies, as well as directed critical views and proposals for overcoming the determinants that, historically, limit the potential at this stage of life. Furthermore, as a consequence, the intervention made possible the reinvention of Freire-an culture circles, to bring out the adolescents’  potential, in addition to leading a process of liberation in the face of injustice, revealing a political and social act as a result.