TY  - UNPB
Y1  - 2004///
AV  - public
EP  - 355
TI  - The construction of critical knowledge for the development of human health : an evaluation of a health promotion intervention in a rural community in Mexico, 1997-1999
N1  - Thesis: (PhD) University of London Institute of Education, 2003.
UR  - http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.408473
PB  - Institute of Education, University of London
N2  - This study is about the power dimensions of health promotion seen from the
perspective of a rural community in Mexico. Drawing upon the conception of health
promotion proposed in the Ottawa Charter 1986, health promotion is examined here as
a device of hegemonic power and also as a possibility to subvert domination. The
assumptions underpinning this thesis are based in the works of Antonio Gramsci, Pierre
Bourdieu and Paulo Freire. The work of Michel Foucault also helped in the
development of particular concepts of health and health promotion. It is argued in this
thesis that the control of power is achieved by controlling meaning in social networks
and that, because of the unique capacity of health to involve the objective and
subjective dimensions of the human person, the discourse and practice of health
promotion are outstanding means for the control of meaning. This thesis has three main
components: the analysis of power and knowledge and of the official discourse and
practice of health promotion; the design of a pedagogic intervention aiming to achieve
changes in adult learners subordination patterns and the description and evaluation of
that intervention. The pedagogic intervention focused on processes rather than on
contents and brought problems of students' reality to deconstruction through dialogue.
This study has a qualitative methodological approach and is presented as a case study.
The empirical data were collected through fieldwork observations during the
implementation of the intervention. It is proposed in this study that dialogue can be a
means to triangulate data. The analysis of data is done here with the aid of process and
outcome indicators capable of monitoring changes in the students' position in the face
of power. This thesis showed that there was a possibility to achieve changes in
students' patterns of subordination through pedagogic practices where they constructed
knowledge embedded in their values and meanings to face their health problems.
ID  - discovery10020469
A1  - Chapela Mendoza, Maria Del Consuelo.
M1  - Doctoral
ER  -