These results are explained using an ecological model that contains three levels: context, rationality and pedagogical practices. The transformation of the educator is identified as a central element in health education based on a different paradigm, as well as the complexity of such transformation.
La propuesta fue reflexionar sobre la educación problematizadora en un ambiente de educación para la salud y contribuir a su desarrollo teórico, en un proceso de investigación-acción, teniendo como objeto el programa de crecimiento y desarrollo en Medellín. El estudio incluyó el uso de la observación participante del programa de desarrollo de los niños y análisis de la información centrada en un proceso reflexivo permanente. Los educadores-investigadores analizaron sus prácticas pedagógicas, intentando transformar la educación en salud en una práctica más dialógica y productiva. Se encontraron dificultades para cambiar la educación tradicional en el ámbito de los servicios de salud. Se evidenció la importancia de la reflexión en la transformación de la práctica. El educando como sujeto, con experiencias y condiciones particulares contribuyó a la comprensión de una educación centrada en el ser humano. Se resaltó la necesidad de considerar los adultos como agentes centrales y la educación infantil como eje del programa.
Health professionals often teach about child rearing based on traditional and transmissionist educational models that prescribe knowledge and meanings without considering whether families have the means to carry out the type of child rearing they value. This article discusses the meanings that child rearing has for a group of caregivers in a settlement inhabited mainly by people forcibly displaced by the armed conflict in Colombia as a way to go forward in understanding child rearing education. This work is a partial product of an action research and education project based on the strategy of thematic investigation circles. The analysis of the findings from the perspective of justice identified three areas of injustice that caregivers face as they undertake child rearing: structural-material, symbolic and cognitive. Addressing health education initiatives, including child rearing education, from a social justice perspective, entails helping people to overcome the unjust conditions faced by the subaltern population. It is also essential that health professionals learn from the students with whom they interact in order to develop more relevant education that aims to promote individual and social transformation.
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