Educação postural: um estudo de suas contribuições para a saúde do trabalhador-estudante do PROEJA

Abstract

This research is part of the line of Policies and Management in Vocational and Technological Education and was carried out together with the Group Transformation - Group of Studies and Research in Public Policies and Pedagogical Work in Professional Education, conducting a study of the contributions of postural education to the worker well-being, with the focus of building the intrinsic relationship between work, health and education. The health-seeking exercise at school and at work can be a coping strategy to improve the quality of life of student workers. In this context, the general goal was to relate postural education to the professional and social well-being of the student workers, seeking to answer the following problematization: What are the contributions of a postural education in the professional training of the student worker of the National Program of Integration of Professional Education with Basic Education in the Youth and Adult Education Mode (PROEJA) of the Industrial Technical College of Santa Maria (CTISM)? A research-action methodology was used, based on an educational postural program, according to the postural education theme for the CTISM PROEJA student workers. The action research had the following phases: diagnosis, action, evaluation and reflection and were used as instruments of data production the Quality of Life Questionnaire Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36), Back Pain and Body Posture Evaluation Instrument (BackPEI), field diary, intensive interview with teacher-manager, focus group and interlocution with student workers. From the experience of the PROEJA/CTISM students, back pain (70.6%) was prevalent, at least once a week (66.7%), moderately or intensely (73.9%), but did not prevent activities (63.6%), as well as high indexes of inadequate sitting postures (70% to 94%). The educational postural program offered an opportunity for gaining knowledge for the student-workers to seek their quality of life, and stimulated the appropriation of knowledge by the subjects, obtaining as a return their interest in the learning generated by the application of the program.