Educação Popular e Direito Humano à Alimentação Adequada e Saudável: uma experiência de extensão

Abstract

This paper aimed to analyze the interface between Popular Education and Human Right to Adequate and Healthy Eating (DHAAS) from the university extension. The methodology had a qualitative approach and was characterized as engaged research, using the methodology of systematization of experiences. Data analysis was guided by dialectic hermeneutics, allowing the relationship of a given situation with other diverse contexts. Priority was given to systematizing the “Food and Nutrition Security Course: social practices to combat hunger and poverty”. At the end of the study, it was found that national and international normative advances were not enough to guarantee the practical realization and effectiveness of DHAAS and other human rights in face of the complex challenges and obstacles to their realization. It was found that Popular Education unveils paths for the promotion of Human Rights through social practices. In addressing the current challenges in the fight against hunger and poverty in pursuit of the realization of DHAAS, potentialities in the community context have also been noted through its enforceability and learning assessments for a law student regarding shared, engaged construction. and committed to social causes, as well as respect for diverse knowledge and the opportunity to broaden and develop a more critical and humanistic view of the processes of social transformation.