Education and health: From practices to knowledge

In this article, we propose to reconcile history and philosophy in order to study and analyze different health paradigms. Over the centuries, these paradigm shifts have influenced understandings in health and education and have also impacted practices. In this contribution, we engage both a historical and philosophical methodology and cross-compare the two. Based on research on the history and philosophy of health, we conduct a study of health and education archives and a critical and reflective analysis of them. Our results are grouped into five categories : intuition, medical, social, global, ecological. Based on these categories, we will examine the evolution of education over several centuries. We also discuss the place of the body within the fields of medicine and education and within a society undergoing transformations of knowledge, awareness, and practices. Finally, we discuss how different paradigms have changed the way we relate to ourselves and to others, how education and health work together to construct an education for life, and the interactions that take place between knowledge and practices in health.