Educação alimentar e alimentação escolar: um diálogo entre as políticas públicas e as práticas educativas de uma escola municipal do Recife.

Abstract

This monograph aims to investigate the eating practices and educational practices of the Early Years of Elementary School of a School of the Recife Municipal Network, in order to contribute to the articulation of actions of Food and Nutrition Education to school practices. School lunches are one of the actions of EAN in schools and should be linked to classroom teaching, considering the relevance of healthy eating to learning. Thus, to meet the objective of the research, an Action Research was performed, since it enables the participation of the research subjects to the identified problem, in order to elaborate strategies of EAN to school practices. For this, the students' eating habits were identified during the lunch and break interval; the course of menu elaboration, production and distribution of the meals until the school; Food Education practices were identified in the classroom curriculum, and analysis of the legal frameworks that justify and subsidize the actions of Food and Nutrition Education in educational institutions, and the curriculum of the Municipal Network. Two semi-structured interviews were conducted with the lunch girl and the school coordinator. The content collected during the observations, curriculum analysis and legal frameworks of EAN, resulted in the elaboration of a material and, this, returned to the research subjects (teachers, school coordination, and other professionals), who analyzed and formulated EAN actions to school practice subsequently evaluated and presented new strategies.