Education and freedom in school health promotion: Comprehensive perspectives on political action as a power in school communities

Abstract

We aim to discuss the political action of the school community as a power for health promotion in Brazilian schools of basic education. Therefore, we reflect on the meaning of the exercise of freedom in the promotion of school health in the light of the references of action, freedom and education, tributary of the work of Hannah Arendt, and the reference of education as practice of freedom, tributary of Paulo Freire’s work. It is concluded that the promotion of school health is part of the material and symbolic legacy that school transmits through the educational process, and that school corresponds to the period in which we assume the task of preparing the new ones to enjoy the freedom of political action.