Health literacy: knowledge, experiences and reflections in the context of training Science and Biology teachers
Historically, health education has been built since the beginning of school building in Brazil. Starting from a fundamentally hygienic-sanitary approach, health education at school has gone through several phases over time until it is currently guided by the National Common Curricular Base. In parallel with the different phases experienced by health education at school, the role of health educator was established in the science and biology teacher. Based on this premise, the present study is structured on the quantitative methodology of narrative analysis to seek to understand the conceptions, practices and experiences in health of this teacher from the field of teacher training. To this end, and based on Freire's assumptions, four scaled dimensions were established to meet the objectives set forth here for health literacy. The pilot narrative report was collected through face-to-face recording and later transcribed. The textual corpus was unitarized and categorized according to the dimensions established for health literacy, which were used as a priori analysis categories. The treatment of the data obtained also included emerging categories based on the theoretical framework that underlies this research. The results obtained from this pilot report guide the preliminary analyses, which allow the identification of some dimensions established for health literacy and trigger discussions about the transformative possibilities of health education when done in an intentionally grounded way. There is a need to review the way health is treated in undergraduate courses in Biological Sciences in a critical and emancipatory sense. The first results obtained also make it possible to reflect on aspects of health that permeate the teaching practice, and raise possibilities for educating oneself in health, from initial training and with the purpose of transforming the teaching being, to educating in health within the context of teaching-learning school.