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Limits and potentialities of the circles of conversation: analysis of an experience with young people in the backcountry of Pernambuco, Brazil

This article attend an empirically experiment grounded in critical analysis of the experience of the wheels conversations with female adolescents in four communities of the interior of Pernambuco. Seeks to contribute to the methodological and pedagogical skills of conversation circles, given the development increasingly common in various contexts in the field of health promotion. The argument is, on the one hand that the conversation wheel is more that circular arrangements of chairs, and on the other, which is a critical way of thinking about the socially constructed roles mainstreamed by historical and unequal relations of class, gender and ethnicity. Finally, reaffirms commitment to spaces that allow the unexpected divergent voices. Pointing this discursive fertility, it is possible to produce a look on the conversation circles as a methodological strategy, engaged in pedagogical action-transforming.

Popular education in health; Circles of conversations; Adolescence; Gender relations


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