Trabalho, Educação e Saúde - TES (Work, Education and Health) is an open access scientific journal, edited by the Joaquim Venâncio Polytechnic School of Health, from Oswaldo Cruz Foundation.
Editorial
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Studies in the last decades have shown that teachers' illnesses originate in the paradox between their mission and the invisibility of teaching in the eyes of the school organization. The objective of this study is to identify possible intersections between the excess and strictness of the demands, made without providing the conditions needed for the required teaching work, and the reports of frustration among those professionals. To assess the work of nine teachers in the classroom, the authors adopted the methodology of work activity ergonomics. It was found that the teachers, after intervening countless times to separate students fighting in class, at other times do not turn their attention to the fact. In such moments they ignore the lack of discipline, seemingly expressing a strategy to deal with the disturbance. The results indicate the preparation of a planning model with time estimates for the numerous activities established by the school's new mission, aiming to reduce crowding in the classroom and avoid the overlapping of tasks, which contribute markedly to the students' disruptions.
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This article presents a conceptual discussion on technology, as it relates to an educational project centered on liberty. It is a partial result of the Line of Research on Education, Culture and Technology/Critical Theory and Education Research Group, at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro/National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (UFRRJ/CNPq). The objective of this research group is to develop research projects on the relationship between education, culture and technology, with a view to discussing the changes in the epistemological status of education in the 20th and 21st centuries. The theoretical reference centers on the work of Herbert Marcuse, particularly his concepts of critical rationality and technological rationality. In the light of these concepts, we will present the challenges of Brazilian contemporary education, faced with a reality of immense territories that are spatially and socially segregated, and of the appeal of a society of spectacle that desensitizes the person and intensifies the commercial object as fetish. In this context we will present the possibilities of education to prepare young people for an active participation in the world of culture through the exploration of historical and aesthetic imagination, with a reference in audiovisual production.
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In the intersection between health, education and the control and prevention of infectious and parasitic diseases, ergodesign concepts and practices are considered fundamental elements in the generation of interfaces for learning materials in health, reflecting the relationship between user, tasks and environments. The authors conducted CD-ROM assessments based on ergodesign principles, with the aim of contributing to the access and dissemination of information relating to health and assisting in interactive learning for mid- and high-level health professionals. 21 digital materials about the two diseases, from national and international institutions, were surveyed. The materials were assessed through a checklist called the ergolist. It was found that the evaluated materials did not fully meet the evaluation criteria. The evaluation and production of information and communication technologies, such as educational and interactive CD-ROMs, based on ergodesign principles, can be a facilitating instrument in the dissemination of information and shrinking of frontiers between education and health.
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This study concerns the profile and activities carried out by nurses in the Psychosocial Care Centers (Caps). It is a qualitative study of the descriptive type. The research instrument used was the structured interview, conducted with 13 nurses of Caps I and II, belonging to the area covered by the Third Regional Health District of Rio Grande do Sul (3ª CRS/RS). From the interviews, information was obtained about the clientele of the Caps, the team's composition, and the activities the nurses carried out in the Caps. The nurses listed their activities in the routine of the Caps, and they were examined in reference to psychosocial rehabilitation within the psychiatric reform.
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An exploratory and descriptive study, conducted with 38 nursing assistants and 17 nursing technicians who worked in the Family Health Strategy (ESF), in the municipalities of Acaraú, Chaval, Coreaú, Granja, Marco and Santana do Acaraú, in the state of Ceará, from March to April of 2005. The objective was to trace the profile and qualification needs of these professionals. The profile showed that most were married women, between 31 and 40 years of age, having completed high school, receiving a minimum income, and working in the rural area. The main qualification needs they pointed out include biosafety, home care, methods and techniques of treating wounds and probes, sterilization, educational activities and receiving the patient. Most of the needs mentioned are techniques, suggesting deficiencies in professional training. The authors emphasize the importance of a permanent policy of education, to improve the qualification of this professional segment and its work in the ESF.
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This article discusses the communication and work binomial from the perspective of ergology, that is, of human activity. It presents a brief retrospective of communication theories, analyzing the limited view of communication processes by hegemonic theoretical currents, and discusses concepts of communication and work, proposing a research approach that will allow better understanding of this binomial.
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Ensaio
This article relates the legacy of the Critical Theory, particularly that of Theodor Adorno, the problem of education for emancipation and not for barbarity or blind integration to society, and the education and training of health service workers, especially mid-level technical education, so as not to merely reproduce capitalism and its forms of injustice.
Interview
Carmen Fontes de Souza Teixeira was born in Bahia, and is now associate professor at the Collective Health Institute of the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). An active participant in the sanitation reform movement of the mid-'70s, she has vast experience in the area of Collective Health, with an emphasis on Public Health, and acts in various fronts such as systems management, public policies, organization of services, and administrative planning and development. Through the Health Surveillance Professional Education Laboratory (Lavsa), the Joaquim Venâncio Polytechnical Health School, of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, invited her to give the lecture "the subjects of Health Surveillance constructing a curricular proposal for technical training and education", at the Joaquim Alberto Cardoso de Melo auditorium, on July 9, 2007. On that same day, Carmen Teixeira granted the interview that follows. In it, she relives the discussion about the change in the health care model and examines themes such as health surveillance as a counter-hegemonic proposal based on the revision of curriculums, subjectivity in the training of health professionals, intersectoriality, empowerment of surveillance agents, and much more, always from the perspective of Sanitation Reform and the improvement of professionals of that sector.
Experience Report
This work aims to provide spaces for the training and education of teachers, adding the practices they developed to the school's political- pedagogical plan and to the views of the various forms and levels of possible curricular integration. The authors researched inter/multi/pluri/transdisciplinarity and the manner in which it could be achieved in the educational reality of a technical school.