THE KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICES OF HEALTH EDUCATION: THE NARRATIVES OF BLACK WOMEN EDUCATORS

Abstract

This study presents the knowledge and practices of health education in narratives of black women and educators in Maranhão and aimed to contextualize the relationships between the knowledge and practices of health education, identify the processes of health education experienced by black women, know the knowledge and practices of health education. As a health professional, following the research associating health and education knowledge was what led me to choose this approach and because I believe that health education is important for health promotion, prevention and treatment measures. As a methodology, the Life History was adopted, through narratives, which propose a new type of knowledge, which seeks reflection on the narrated experience, to ensure a new political position in science. The relevance lies in the contribution to popular education in health, with the knowledge and practices of black women educators as a fostering of a dialectical articulation for paradigm shifts. In this course, the researcher's life story was briefly addressed; health education processes; the knowledge and health practices of black women; the knowledge and practices in health, revealed in the narratives of black women educators in Maranhão. It was concluded that the knowledge and practices of health education of black women educators have popular education as a background, and are based on informal education and influenced by the knowledge of their ancestors. Through this study, it is expected to contribute to the population in general about the knowledge and practices narrated by black women educators in order to perceive the contribution of knowledge and practices to their life trajectory, that there is a perception of the complementarity between informal and formal education in a dialogical articulation for paradigm changes,  that serve as a basis for the production of scientific knowledge and for public legal measures as a support for informal or popular education.