The Specialization in Popular Health Education in the Promotion of Healthy and Sustainable Territories at Fiocruz: an analysis from the students’ perspective

Abstract

This study aimed to understand the experience of the Specialization course in Popular Health Education in the Promotion of Healthy and Sustainable Territories at Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), from the student’s perspective. A qualitative research was carried out through semi-structured interviews with students from the course (n = 20). Data were interpreted by Bardin’s thematic content analysis. The results comprised three thematic categories: the Pedagogy of Training, which presents the understanding of the training and methodological strategies of the course; the Pedagogy of the Encounter, which brings the powers that have been made in the encounter between diversity; the Pedagogy of Movement, which raises the implications of the course for the personal and professional transformation of the participants. Training presented itself as a powerful instrument for transforming perspectives and practices, in which the meeting acted as a means of political articulation and health care.