Transmutação : espaço não formal de aprendizagem para promoção da educação em saúde

Abstract

Public health programs have a preventive and health-promoting approach to the social well being of individuals. The focus of the preventive approach is often disease-centered, while health promotion takes into account physical, mental and social well-being and not just an absence of disease, such as established by the World Health Organization (WHO). In addition, programs must be active in the teaching-learning process. Scientific exemplars are non-formal spaces of education. The teaching process in the domains allows the participant to have autonomy in learning, development of criticality and to be one of the main responsible for the search for knowledge. Thus, the campaign “Eating for a living” was an extension action at the Federal University of Mato Grosso, Campus Sinop, with the public, whose theme addressed was the human digestive system and healthy eating. The present study aimed to verify if a body organism has a conscience contributing to the absence of body conscience, an awareness for the adoption of healthy habits and a scientific literacy. For this, an exploratory and descriptive research with qualitative approach was performed. The research participants were 31 students aged 12 to 13 years, attending the seventh grade of elementary school Djalma Guilherme da Silva State School located in the municipality of Sinop-MT, who visited the scientific exhibition. Data collection was performed through the Conversation Wheel, maintaining the formation of the same groups on the day of the visit, being respectively 5, 9 and 9 members per group, respecting the established exclusion criteria. The methodology of content analysis was used to, from the collected records constitute the corpus of analysis and proceed to the elaboration of an interpretation of the phenomenon. From the reports collected in the Conversation Wheel it was noticed that the visitation contributed significantly to the learning, that is, when the subjects were stimulated to learn using everyday examples, they responded positively. The results found in the research were satisfactory, since the members of the groups interacted with each other to answer the guiding questions. All groups knew the anatomical location of the organs and their respective functions. It was observed that they appropriated the scientific concepts, even some subjects reported that they reproduced what was learned for their family. Another important factor was the use of playfulness to explain concepts learned by some subjects. Participants expressed a balanced diet and also knew the importance of this lifestyle. Thus, it is concluded that the exhibition “Eating for a living” was an important vehicle for scientific dissemination in health.