Education and food: representations of students from a full-time public school in the state of Ceará about food

• Autor(a) principal: Nascimento, André Araújo do
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Bezerra, José Arimatea Barros
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Ensino em Perspectivas
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.uece.br/index.php/ensinoemperspectivas/article/view/11596
• topic: Alimentação; Alimentação saudável; Escola de tempo integral; Representações sociais; Food; Healthy eating; Full-time school; Social representations

This article proposes to investigate representations that students have about food and healthy eating in their daily lives. It intends to reflect on their daily practices, which are strongly marked by consumerism and standardization, interfering in the construction of sociocultural values, which are produced and constantly fed back. Our general objective is to analyze the social representations of food among students in the 1st year of high school at a full-time school in the public education network in Ceará. Specifically, we intend to categorize these representations among students about food and healthy eating, identifying in these subject to social representations. As a theoretical reference, we will work with the authors Bezerra (2002;, 2018),; Moscovici (2005),; Jodelet (2001;, 2005) to discuss two categories of analysis: food, healthy eating and representations. The research was structured to understand the symbolic representations in relation to food in the school context and will have a qualitative approach with case study methodology, based on the application of a questionnaire and semi-structured interview, which corroborate the knowledge, reading and dialogue about events in the context of the researched object. . The results of the research, which involved interviews with 50 students, confirm the hypothesis raised by the study about food and healthy eating in the context of social representations in a full-time public school. For example, approximately 70% of adolescents consider food and healthy eating to be interconnected concepts, recognizing the relevance of food in their lives and demonstrating interest in issues related to nutrition and the quality of the food they consume. Furthermore, 98% of those interviewed perceive physical appearance as something fundamental in their lives, suggesting a relationship between personal image, aesthetics and type of diet. However, the students' social reality limits the implementation of these categories, since eating habits are conditioned by the school, where three meals a day are offered, unlike what happens at home, as revealed in the students' testimonies through interviews.