Aleitamento materno: representações sociais de professores de ciências profissionais de saúde e mães

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate how sciences teachers, health professionals and mothers construct social images about the mother suckling. It is based the theory about social images. The methodology consisted of interviews and. some questionnaires that were also applied in order to know if the opinions given by sciences teachers and health professionals about the mother suckling are positive or negative for develop an educational work involving mothers. The results about the social images constructed by the groups investigated point to the need of develop a systematic educational work with mothers as well as suggest more researches in order of enlarge the discussion about the mother suckling in the school everyday. In this way, it would make possible to the society, in general, construct a new view about the importance of the mother suckling to the children development.