Confronting Inequity: Participatory Education Impacting Health At Work

摘要: Occupational health educators partnering with Latina/o immigrant communities are challenged to cross the boundaries of traditional dominant culture assumptions about knowledge and action. Together they seek understand risks that workers face daily, their pressing needs work for survival, limitations bringing institutional enforcement workplaces. A critical ethnographic approach may start understanding how practices held used in role social agency responding learning workplace hazards. Peer leading popular education curricula, community-based organizations, is a promising approach. The effect its most authentic form requires curricula created, presented evaluated as joint effort between needing skills capacities occupational health, organizers communities, experts willing develop post-colonial outside disciplinary boundaries. Educators unique, local, cultural histories recognize ecology learning. As critique colonial approaches, an intentional educational science mediation should be practiced both describe native funds ways examining these processes partnership. human seeks decolonize dissemination by turning focus away from decontextualized mechanisms; it promotes contemporary confluence media, transnational hybridity, active learners have across languages use design re-design lifeworlds. explore document what know need peer can trust teach each other sustaining strengthen worker support.