Education in oral health requires an expanded approach to the health-disease-care process
and, above all, multidisciplinary strategies, involving various professionals and social
institutions, including the school. However, in the case of indigenous peoples, this model of
care must go beyond the prevention of oral diseases, and it is also important to develop the
subjects' autonomy and reduce risks through health promotion actions. This research aimed
to investigate in which aspects a continuing education course in Oral Health Education can
collaborate in the process of reflection of the indigenous teacher from Alto Rio Negro
regarding his educational practice in oral health at school. The research participants were
four indigenous teachers who work in basic education, in a school in the Ilha das Flores
community, in the municipality of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazon. It was a qualitative
research, using action research (TRIPP, 2005) as a method for the development of continuing
education, with a workload of 20 hours, structured in three phases: planning; implementation
and evaluation. As data collection techniques, we used the focus group and observation; and
as instruments for recording data, we use the session reports, audio and video recordings and
productions of the participants (notebook with written records, drawings and teaching
materials). The data were organized and interpreted through the Discursive Textual Analysis
(MORAES; GALIAZZI, 2011), and pointed out four aspects: 1) the rescue of the discussion
about the discontinuity of oral health education actions at school; 2) the teacher's role during
the training course; 3) the joint actions of education and health in the village, represented
symbolically, by the union of three hills: education, indigenous mythology and health and;
4) the reflection of the educational practice in oral health at school revealed through
concepts, procedures and attitudes of teachers during the training. This research resulted in
the educational product, “It's time for Aru: new winds for Oral Health Education in
indigenous schools”.
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