Improvement of healthy lifestyles and quality of life in a learning community through community health education programmes

Over the last years, participative experiences carried out by educational centres set as Learning Communities have been developed in Andalusia. Those communities are gradually making the socio -educational reality of schools and their environments be transformed through the promotion of cultural and educational contributions from many people involved in the improvement of education. This article will show if the living standards of an educational centre that was transformed into a learning community and where 84% of its students are of gypsy origin improved thanks to the aforementioned contributions and the implementation of community health education programmes during academic year 2018-2019. The research methodology is based on the critical communicative approach in an attempt to find a description and/or interpretation of reality. It also aims to help transform that reality. This methodology relies on the egalitarian dialogue between the scientific community and the people whose reality is subject to study. Throughout the in-depth interviews of communicative nature and the discussion groups, it will be revealed that students have improved their healthy lifestyles, and also that what they learn at school often comes into conflict with what their get from home.