This study reflects the similarities and differences between the active teaching-learning methodologies and popular education in the training of health professionals. Moreover, it reflects the epistemological foundations of popular education and the core active teaching-learning methodologies considered in the context of its use in the training of health professionals. Popular education proposes a radical fusion between the media and education because awareness is both an aim and a method of training. Under different circumstances, although identified with a student-centered pedagogical process and autonomy motivation, the active methods can be used in isolation with a utilitarian logic, which is a characteristic of banking education. Thus, popular education can be an important analyzer of active methodologies in the context of health courses, facilitating to consolidate their use in liberating formative processes.
Popular Education; Active Teaching-Learning Methodologies; Health Education