Educação, saúde e sociedade: contribuições para a formação de docentes da educação básica

Abstract

Throughout the history of science, there have been many meanings, interpretations and explanations for health, a fundamental theme for humanity and which brings with it, sometimes antagonistically, sometimes associated, the phenomenon of disease. The relationship between the terms is often mediated by the notion of therapy. If we analyze the various contributions of the sociology of health, as well as of the social sciences in general, it is noted that the concept of health, by nature, is something complex to define, as it not only goes beyond biological limits, but also affects the different dimensions of life: from the social and economic spheres to the cultural and moral spheres of societies and individuals, as a global phenomenon. Health, as a contemporary theme of the National Curricular Common Base, must be included in school curricula and worked pedagogically in teaching institutions, which requires future teachers, as articulating agents of the teaching-learning processes, adequate training, both in scientific knowledge, and in the development of skills, necessary to act efficiently in health education. This demands an understanding of health beyond prevention, maintenance and rehabilitation, but as a phenomenon whose conception encompasses different aspects and areas of life, individual and collective. In view of this, this research with a qualitative and field character approach, aimed to investigate which are the conceptions of health of academics of the degree course in biological sciences, and how such ideas influence their way of conceiving health education in schools. In view of the results, it was possible to conclude that the initial conceptions about health and illness of the participating academics encompass aspects of common sense conceptions spread in society. With regard to the educational product linked to this research, through the analysis of the data collected after its application, it was possible to assess what their contributions to the training of these future teachers began to elaborate their concept of health in a more complex way, extrapolating their initial concepts about the theme.