Educação e saúde no contexto escolar

Abstract

This book deals with concepts and proposals that seek to instill in people a sense of responsibility for individual and collective health as well as the ability to participate in community life in a constructive way. The school, as a teaching-learning environment, coexistence and growth, is the ideal space for the development of educational actions aimed at health promotion, as it significantly influences behavior, knowledge, sense of responsibility and ability to observe, think and act in children and adolescents. Thus, it is understood that health education is necessary for the promotion of health and that the school is the best place for the development of these actions. In order to meet the challenges proposed, we organize this work in two parts. Firstly, we approach the "Contextualization of Health Thematic", where the authors present different perceptions about health in the school context and discuss the present challenges in the execution of health promotion in the school environment with different methodological tools and different actors involved. In the second part, the experiences of the authors related to the "Different Experiences of Approaching the Health Theme in the School" are presented. In particular, issues related to healthy eating, physical activity, prevention of noncommunicable diseases and diseases, cardiovascular health, health in the Initial Years of schooling, recreational activities, sex education, among others, are illustrated and discussed. In particular, the importance of school inclusion seen as a multi / interdisciplinary issue and the teachers' understanding of health in the school context is also discussed. We understand that elementary and middle school teachers and undergraduate students are readers for whom the available literature regarding Education and Health in the School Context is still insignificant. With this aim, we present texts that approach this theme by relating them more directly to teaching practices, in an attempt to promote a greater encounter between the research that is done in the University and the orientation that the teaching requires, be it Science and Physical Education, cross-cutting themes.