Agir crítico em nutrição: uma construção pela educação popular

• Autor(a) principal: Cruz, Pedro José Santos Carneiro
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/8573
• topic: Nutrição; Nutrition; Educação Popular; Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional; Popular Education; Food Security and Nutrition; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO

The movement of reorientation of nutrition as social and professional practice has been growing and consolidating in recent decades, mainly driven by the persistence of social exclusion and food insecurity globally. In this process, the educational activities in food and nutrition also are located predominantly in traditional models based on technicality and transmission of information. Although allusions are made to authors such as Paulo Freire and the perspective of Popular Education (EP), there remains a gap between what is said and what is done in everyday practice for a transforming action of nutrition food insecure contexts. From an experience in the field of nutrition in the light of EP through the Extension Program "Práticas Integrais de Promoção da Saúde e Nutrição na Atenção Básica – PINAB ", this study aims to analyze how the EP founded a critical act in nutrition. So, we used a qualitative approach with dialectical perspective, built through action research. As a result, we identified categories that point to a critical act in nutrition, namely: engagement and commitment to social reality; share, bond and shared construction; building in the midst of conflict and confrontation of capitalism; education in community groups; overcoming the welfare and reorientation of classic making Nutrition in Food Security and Nutrition Actions (SAN); praxis; and interdisciplinarity. It was also possible to point out some reflections for Food and Nutrition Education (EAN) in the view of the EP, among them, stood out the perception of EAN as a shared construction, mediated through dialogue and popular participation, which requires more than ideas of intellectuals; but the role of popular knowledge. We conclude that the Popular Education has principles, intentions and approaches able to bring elements to overcome the distance between critical debate on nutrition (especially in the field of SAN) and his achievements in the practical field, particularly the educational ones. Even with limits, PINAB experience points sufficient provocations and ways to enunciate the thesis that, effectively, the Popular Education founded a theory and practice of a critical act in nutrition.