Analysis of health literacy on COVID-19 in Primary Education pre-service teachers

Abstract

This study analyses the level of health literacy exhibited by 44 Primary Education pre-service teachers (PST) after participating in an argument-driven inquiry around the socio-scientific dilemma of vaccination on COVID-19 and the subsequent elaboration of educational transpositions for its treatment in the science classroom. Employing the ADI rubric (argument-driven inquiry), which evaluates the understanding of the content and the scientific context associated with these educational approaches, we value the degree of acquisition of each one of them. The scores obtained in the rubric (high, medium and low) and qualitative analysis of the proposals designed are linked to the different hierarchy levels of health literacy (functional, communicative and critical) to give an idea of the degree of acquisition. The results show a medium-high grade in the functional and communicative levels, and a low grade in the critical level, the latter associated with the development of community actions in the educational field, revealing the need to deepen in training actions that involve these teachers in the social role of science.