Health Professionals Training: Strategies of Sensibility to Work with the Community

Abstract

This article reports a classroom experience with Sports Science and Nutrition students. The objective was to characterize the field of public health, as a process of collective building and production space of knowledge, practices, promoting a theoretical and crit ical reflection in relat ion to different educational practices used in health education. Emp loying different methodological strategies that not only overcome resistance to the contents, but also stimu late the students to work with communit ies. Experience has shown that differentiated teaching and learning processes represent more difficulty, because they demand more dedication and responsibility fro m both the teacher and the students, confirming the importance of searching through more interactive activities: It leads to students development as professionals and citizens.