Abstract

PENARANDA C, Fernando  and  BLANDON L, Lilliana María. Education in the Growth and Development Monitoring Program: between satisfaction and frustration. Rev. Fac. Nac. Salud Pública [online]. 2006, vol.24, n.2, pp.28-36. ISSN 0120-386X.

Ethnographic study designed to understand the educative process in a growth and development monitoring program for children. Observation of regular activities, group interviews to mothers and health team members as well as workshops with mothers were done on a nine months period. Findings are directed to explain a paradoxical feeling of both success and frustration in educators and mothers with regard to the educative process. Implications and diversity of mothers’ feelings toward their role, from a personal, socioeconomic and cultural perspective, are not well understood by health team members due to the educative model, a biomedical-positivistic training, lack in social science knowledge and the program orientation focused on the child not the mother-child pair. An alternative educative model that presents the mother as a student is proposed.

Keywords : Motherhood; education; ethnography; growth and development monitoring program.

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