Estratégias educativas em saúde no Instituto Federal Farroupilha: desafios e possibilidades a partir do Ensino Médio Integrado

Abstract

This research was developed within the scope of the Postgraduate Program in Professional and Technological Education (ProfEPT), of the Federal Institute Farroupilha (IFFar), in the Organization and Memories of Pedagogical Spaces in Professional and Technological Education research line, in the macroproject organization of the curriculum integrated into EPT, and aimed to: understand how health education processes occur in integrated high school in light of the actions developed on campuses with student housing at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology, Farroupilha. The chosen theme was influenced by my professional and academic experiences, previously resulting from training and working as a Specialist Nurse in Family Health and later from working as an Administrative Technician in Education, collaborating in the training of Nurses. This was also corroborated by the intrinsic relationship between education and health, where the absence of one implies non-compliance with the other, a discussion proposed for reflection in this research. Thus, this study sought to approximate the theoretical bases of integrated secondary education and health education, with a view to highlighting the interrelationship between them. The qualitative approach methodology, outlined as a case study, comprised the investigative scenario of campuses with IFFar student housing, including student assistance professionals and integrated high school teachers (EMI) as subjects. Data collection was based on documentary analysis of public EMI documents, and a semi-structured questionnaire, online format, in Google Forms, aimed at research participants. Data analysis was carried out using Discursive Textual Analysis (ATD), by Moraes and Galiazzi. The research showed the existence of a large apparatus for health care for students at IFFar, with legal provisions delimited from the Student Health Care Policy, the Institutional Development Plan and the Pedagogical Course Projects, in addition to the diversity of health professionals and the presence of specific sectors for health care. Furthermore, it was possible to identify several successful actions related to health education, although most of them are associated with individual or sectoral initiatives, which signals the need to improve interdisciplinary and intersectoral processes, so that in fact the transversality of the health theme occur. Furthermore, the necessary continuity of actions aimed at strengthening the premises of integrated secondary education stands out, as well as promoting the development of longitudinal health education plans, which integrate subjects in an interdisciplinary and intersectoral manner, as much as they promote Student Health Care Policy.