Abstract
The present study has the goal of questio-ning the learning processes of adult workers in professional training in health. Considering that the training of health workers should expand the horizons of the students beyond biomedicine, we take as reference the studies by Kastrup on inventive cognition. These studies help us conceive a training that is different from the training focused on content and techniques. The research was developed based on an analysis of documents written by students and teachers of the Community Health Worker Technical Course in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2017. The interviews performed with the students were also analyzed. The analyses show how different pedagogical strategies favor the training of individuals-workers who are sensible of and engaged with the development of health practices that are not only established within biomedical knowledge. We noticed that the work performed made it possible for the students to question the relationships among education, culture and health, and, therefore, question their already ingrained health practices. These experiences opened the possibility for the students “to no longer be who they were” and strengthen themselves in the development of a diverse Unified Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde, in Portuguese) and a diverse society.
professional training in health; community health worker training; adult learning; inventive cognition