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Speakers
Moderator
Prof. Dr. Hiram V. Arroyo – Acevedo, Professor and researcher in Health Promotion and Health Education. Director, Department of Social Sciences, Director, World Health Organization (WHO/PAHO) Collaborating Centre for Training and Research in Health Promotion and Health Education, School of Biosocial Sciences and Graduate School of Public Health, University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico.
Prof. Dr. Fernando Peñaranda Correa is a medical doctor. Master’s in public health, master’s in education and social development and doctor in Social Sciences, Childhood and Youth. He is a professor and senior researcher of the Health and Society Research Group of the National School of Public Health of the University of Antioquia. He is the coordinator of emphasis in health education of the master’s in public health. He has been a professor in the undergraduate and graduate programs of the Faculty and in other universities in the country, in the following topics: epistemology, qualitative research, ethics and social justice, public health, health promotion and health education. He has written numerous articles, book chapters and books in the areas of health education, qualitative research, ethics and public health and social justice.
Prof. Dr. Eymard Mourao Vasconcelos has a degree in Medicine (1975), a master’s degree in Education (1986), a doctorate in Tropical Medicine (1997), all from the Federal University of Minas Gerais and a post-doctorate in Public Health from ENSP/FIOCRUZ. He is a retired professor from the Department of Health Promotion at the Medical Sciences Center of the Federal University of Paraíba, having worked for 19 years in the Postgraduate Program in Education. He has experience in the area of Public Health, with an emphasis on Popular Education and Community Health, working mainly on the following subjects: health education, popular education, primary health care, spirituality in health and university extension. He is the current coordinator of the Popular Education in Health Network. He also coordinates the Popular Education in Health Research Group.
Summary
In order to recover the Latin American production and its critical and decolonial approaches in order to be positioned at the regional level, it is necessary to identify the pedagogical perspective that sustains the educational act, which requires taking a stand. This implies transcending appearance and achieving to specify the essence of the educational act, in order to overcome the biomedical, instrumental and instructional perspective and promote a dialogic, problematizing and emancipatory education. This alternative perspective requires a transdisciplinary approach, but also a dialogic one, insofar as it not only recognizes the knowledge instituted from academic disciplines but also popular and ancestral knowledge. An education directed towards the development of capacities understood as the abilities and opportunities to live the life that is valued and the strengthening of autonomy as well as the capacities for community organization and political participation.
The questions and reflections that will be addressed during the webinar are :
- Which health education do we want to promote taking into account the intentionality (what do we educate for?) and the ethical and political direction (why do we educate?).
- How are theoretical and political debates on health education taking place in our region and how does these debates contribute to the positioning of the developments and experiences in Latin America?
Our speaker’s contributions
The recording of the webinar:
Latin American Network for the Revitalisation of Health Education
This webinar is a part of the “Latin American Network for the Revitalisation of Health Education”. This initiative is being promoted with the participation of the UNESCO Chair on Global Health and Education, the Inter-American Consortium of Universities and Training Centers for Health Education and Health Promotion (CIUEPS), the Brazilian Network of Popular Health Education, the Colombian Network of Health Education and the Regional Office for Latin America of the International Union of Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE/ORLA), with the following objectives:
- Promote health education at national and international levels, as a fundamental dimension of the health disciplines, the educational sciences and the social and human sciences.
- To recuperate the Latin American production and position it in the regional level, which implies promoting its critical and decolonial approaches. A health education that advocates for social transformation towards a more just and equitable society that guarantees well-being and a life with dignity.
- Promote the articulation of the education and health sectors to strengthen the actions of each of these sectors to promote health education, by recognizing education and health as two inalienable, synergistic and interdependent human rights.
- Strengthen the theoretical, political and ethical foundations of health education as a requirement for a responsible, productive and ethical pedagogical practice.
- To generate a setting for the articulation of academia and civil society that allows Latin American integration in order to share experiences, knowledge and aspirations framed in a collective purpose.
- To promote national and international integration with respect to health education as a means for mutual learning and solidarity, and to facilitate cooperative actions in the development of academic-scientific events, research and training processes.
The webinars, open to all interested stakeholders, are a component of the program. They are experiential sessions, lasting 60-90 minutes, with guest speakers who present their reflections on two or three problematic questions to encourage audience participation. Five webinars have been scheduled for this first stage of the program, with an interval of 2 months between each one.
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