Author(s): Monteiro, Estela Maria Leite Meirelles ; Brandão Neto, Waldemar ; Lima, Luciane Soares de ; Aquino, Jael Maria ; Gontijo, Daniela Tavares ; Pereira, Beatriz Oliveira
Date: 2015
Persistent ID: https://hdl.handle.net/1822/34623
Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
Subject(s): Adolescents; High school; Participatory action research; Health education; Violence prevention; Youth empowerment
An action research based on Paulo Freire's Culture Circles was developed to implement a health education intervention involving adolescents, in collective knowledge construction about strategies for the prevention of violence. The data collection in the Culture Circles involved 11 adolescents and included observation and field diary, photographic records and recording. The educational action aroused a critical socio-political and cultural position in the adolescents towards the situations of vulnerability to violence, including the guarantee of human rights, justice and the combat of inequities; changes in the social relations, combat against discrimination and intolerance; expansion of access and reorientation of health services through intersectoral public policies. The intervention empowered the group of adolescents for the prevention of violence and permitted the inclusion of health professionals in the school context, from an interdisciplinary perspective, contributing to the establishment of social support and protection networks.
