Teaching and practing mental health in the classroom

undergraduate monitoring

Abstract

In the context of the return to face-to-face activities after facing the measures to contain the covid-19 health crisis, this text records the report of an undergraduate monitoring experience in the discipline of Educational Psychology with an emphasis on mental health in educational communities. The objective of this article is to contribute to the production of pedagogical knowledge that has in its scope the promotion of mental health within educational communities, aiming at the possibility of undergraduate students being agents of mental health promotion in their teaching practices. One of the peculiarities of this study is that it presents the mental health demands experienced by the students of the monitored discipline and student-author. To produce this document, a description of the activities carried out in the classroom during the teaching monitoring actions was carried out, with the record based on notes made in a field diary. The analysis shows that pedagogical and curricular practices in the classroom, with a background to the promotion of mental health in the school-university environment, can generate bonds and provide safe learning environments even after a period of great instability such as during the pandemic.