Artigo Produção Nacional Revisado por pares

O processo participativo de idosos através de experiências e práticas do Movimento de Educadores Populares

2011; Volume: 14; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

ISSN

1809-8363

Autores

Maria Verônica Câmara dos Santos,

Tópico(s)

Youth, Drugs, and Violence

Resumo

The elderly participation in Health Popular Education practices in a town called Recife /PE expresses as socialization and promotion of autonomy and freedom forms to each one. In an environment of fighting with the institutionalization of Popular Education in the Municipal Health policy comes up the Popular Educators Movement(MEP), a non-governmental organization (NGO) formed by health community agents that developed health basic attention projects with different segments of community and, among them, the elderly. This work aims to know the social and historical reality where these practices took place. This research uses the participative observance through the elderly experiences of investigated elderly to analyze and understand the meaning of this elderly participation in these practices. These experiences are showed through the speeches and descriptions of some aspects observed in the local reality.

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