Alimentação saudável: a importância das práticas educativas no contexto escolar como instrumento de sensibilização

Abstract

Healthy eating has become an achievement in the routine of modern society, whose time is restricted to the administration of daily activities, influencing changes in lifestyle that reach eating habits from childhood and adolescence. To better understand the awareness of this age group, the present study aimed to understand the perceptions and conceptions of learners about healthy eating, using pedagogical activities in the formal teaching environment, as a strategy to raise awareness during Science Teaching. Providing the investigation of impact on teaching and learning process of 36 students of Elementary School, in a public school in Paraíba, during the months of January to May 2018. The methodology used was qualitative and quantitative, and method ethnographic with elements of participant observation. The data collected through a questionnaire were analyzed according to the technique of content analysis, construction of tables and percentages, which enabled the interpretation of data both before and after the pedagogical interventions. Among the several questions, it was observed that the definitions of healthy eating most cited by the students highlighted the consumption of in natura products, represented 64% of them before the sensitization activities and 42% after them. The other questions also presented small oscillations. Evidence that the previous knowledge of the participants reflected obstacles in the learning process of the students. The short period of development of the study was insufficient to make significantly changes in the development of eating habits in the students, based on pedagogical actions of sensitization experienced in the school. Highlighting the possibility of a broad and deep study, considering social, economic, cultural and behavioral aspects that involve nutrition, in order to favor the constancy of the subject in the school environment and the expansion of the thematic in the academic environment as an important component of the promotion of health and quality of life.