Significados atribuídos à alimentação saudável por professores da Educação Infantil: entre o dito e o vivido

Abstract

The research aims to study healthy eating and its curricular implications in the school environment, from the understanding of teachers of a public school in the Maracanaú/CE educational network. The overall goal is to understand the meanings that early childhood education teachers make about healthy eating. Has as specifics objectives: analyze the main official Brazilian documents dealing with Food and Nutrition Education - FNE; map the previous knowledge that teachers have about healthy eating; and concatenate the relationship between what the official documents indicate as the reference to be applied to the FNE at school and how teachers can apprehend and apply these references. It is a qualitative study, characterized as bibliographic, exploratory and descriptive. The discussion about food culture and healthy food are referenced by the authors Bezerra, DaMatta, Montanari, Santos, Maciel, Boog and Fischler. The five priority axes of the National School Feeding Program - NSFP and Directives I and II of this program provide theoretical support to field observations and pedagogical practices carried out by teachers. The technique of participant observation was adopted as a methodology for obtaining data from school everyday. For the knowledge of the "Histories within the History" of the research subjects, semi-structured interviews were used, based on the theoretical-methodological reference of oral history, and semi-structured questionnaire. The analysis and interpretation of the results pass through the theoretical-methodological framework of Depth Hermeneutics. The research, in general, pointed out that teachers have relative and incipient understanding about healthy eating and its curricular implications, that the school has its well-developed school feeding routines and that it contributes, within the reach of all the actors, for a healthy and adequate diet for students. The findings also point to the fact that healthy school feeding work is being hampered in the family environment, mainly due to the appeals of the mass media and the food industry.