Dialogues, practices and games in health learning

Abstract

The intention of this report is to socialize experiences arising from the development of a university extension project and to reflect on how the experience allowed us to redefine our way of doing and thinking about health promotion from oral health.

During 2018, the university extension team worked with the community of El quebracho neighborhood, with the idea of consolidating and giving continuity to a work space that articulated in the territory. Together with members of the elementary school María del Tránsito Cabanillas, the Health Center No. 68 and the Chair of Preventive and Community Dentistry II of the F.O - UNC; links were strengthened, based on the need and potential of the group in the framework of health promotion. The project was designed from the perspective of rights, using games and creativity as didactic tools.  

In vulnerable contexts, the school has the potential for the development of participatory, empowering and inter-institutionally articulated health actions. The educational community is constituted as a productive and recreational space for the resignification and reflection of naturalized health care strategies and practices. 

The university in extension actions, through service learning, contributes to the improvement of the quality of life of the population while building meaningful knowledge.