Educating about Coronavirus from a cross-cultural knowledge perspective: social representation that impede health education practice?
Éduquer aux Coronavirus dans une perspective interculturelle du savoir : des représentations sociales qui empêchent la pratique d’éducation à la santé ?
Résumé
After the first lockdown March-June 2020, when classes restart, the teachers from the trainee schools (PES) were confronted with their own knowledge on the SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus. Their opinions on the SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus are part of culturally constructed social representations. This identification could be important to explore how they plan to use this notion in their teaching of health education. Four semi-directive interviews are proposed to PES in Mayotte, in a particular moment: a probable return to the classroom, just after lockdown period. Results showed that the construction of knowledge around Coronaviruses is included in culture, but also the identification of pedagogical activities that contribute to a certain form of health education epistemology (Jourdan et al., 2002). The incorporating of the intercultural perspective into health education practices will be considered.