Apropiación de la salud en la escuela a través del aprendizaje–servicio

Abstract

In Colombia, Health Education (EpS) has been in charge of health personnel, so it has an instrumental approach, in which education is secondary. Consequently, this research wondered how to raise elements of reflection and appropriation of health in the school from Service Learning (ApS). The ApS develops academic objectives, but at the service of solidarity interests, so the emphasis is not on indoctrination about health, but on the social mediations that are forged in its search. Through a Research-Creation methodology, a hypermedia educational resource was developed based on ApS and based on relational communication for health, Popular Education for health and health as a counter-hegemonic concept. The product was socialized with teachers from two educational institutions, who valued it positively and considered it as a starting point for a comprehensive EpS program.