SAÚDE-EDUCAÇÃO: SABERES, PODERES, EXPERIÊNCIAS E SINGULARIDADES

Abstract

In this research, we considered the term "Health-Education" as the area of interaction between "Education" and "Health". Thus, considering the need to construct other perceptions in this area, we aimed to understand the functioning of discourse in educative materials of preventive campaigns, as we also sought transformations of our own conceptions, elaborating experiences during the construction of this research and this text, which was a movement of looking at our own context and trajectory. In spite of being a "qualitative research", we looked for routes to go beyond the dichotomy between quantitative and qualitative, beyond standardised methodological techniques, beyond the establishment of completely predetermined steps. During the months of June up to September 2011, we observed the educative materials of preventive campaigns that were available in the website of Ministry of Health (Brazil), and we selected the educative materials that presented relation with "health", with the following senses "to produce (more) health" and "to construct healthy (healthier) bodies", to be analysed. The analysis of discourse of the selected educative materials was based Michel Foucault´s conceptions, considering the importance of visualizing the functioning of discourse, in order to understand the relations of power and knowledge. The construction of this text, which was "woven" through the interactions among forms of knowledge and power, was understood as a possibility of transformations and retransformations, through the elaboration of singular experiences in relation to the language transformations.