Resumen de Reading the Word and the World: Empowering Mozambican Health Teachers through Video Production
Agnaldo Arroio, Clara Cacilda Mauaie
The aim of this chapter is to present an experience related to a professional teacher developmentprogram conducted in the Republic of Mozambique with in-service teachers from the Ministry ofHealth. An educational program for professional development was designed to support the improvementof teachers’ skills in the use of different media in classrooms. The program was established in15 health training institutes across the country. Data was collected from the analysis of pre- and postquestionnaires,interviews, and the materials produced (videos) during the educational program. Theresults showed that an important achievement of this educational program was the production ofdigital video as teaching material for health education. Moreover, the introduction of media literacyhelped them to develop a critical vision in which teachers recognized the importance of representingthe context in instructional materials, as well as promoting basic health care for the Mozambicanpopulation who are not literate in Portuguese, so that the videos produced can disseminate basichealth information to improve the lives of these people who speak other languages.
