Political education and freirean thought: systematizing the dialogue between struggle and health

Abstract

Social struggles in health are daily and date, in recent history, since the creation of the Unified Health System (SUS) in Brazil. In this sense, the formation of new collectives that enter the socio-political scene and use the pedagogical practice as an instrument of struggle has been growing. This way of political action / activism it is what we might largely call 'political education'. It was the experience of pedagogical maturation of the group ‘Political Formation in Health’ in identifying the fundamentals of Freirean thought to qualify its action of critical political education. A Systematization of Experience was carried out on the reading group of ‘Critical Pedagogies and Health’, whose focus was the Pedagogy of Autonomy. There were 12 health workers/students who organized their sections through the Wheel Method. It was realized that the experience contributed to rethinking the modes of emancipation their ‘teaching-studing’.