THE FOOD AND NUTRITION FIELD: AN ESSAY ON THE EXPANSION OF NUTRITION UNDERGRADUATE COURSES IN THE CURRENT BRAZILIAN UNIVERSITY SCENARIO
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.12957/demetra.2018.25310Keywords:
Body Image. Feeding Behavior. Gender Identity.Abstract
The profession of nutritionist is embedded in the logic of State policies, which involves a set of economic, social and political interests. There has been significant expansion in these undergraduate courses in the country, mainly in private education institutions. The university system was incorporated by the global capitalist market economy; thus, Food and Nutrition has been developed as scientific field in this scenario. The aim of the present study is to address the expansion of Nutrition undergraduate courses in the current scenario of higher education institutions, as well as to analyze its impacts on nutritionist formation. An analytical and critical research was developed based on documentary analysis in order to identify elements of a symbolic game that covers this journey, as well as to guide the analysis process. Results suggested the accelerated expansion of for-profit higher education institutions in Brazil, which had impact on the Food and Nutrition field, both on the expansion of Nutrition undergraduate courses and on the professional education model adopted to meet economic interests.
DOI: 10.12957/demetra.2018.25310
Downloads
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
STATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIP RESPONSIBILITY
Title of the manuscript:
________________________________________________________
1. Statement of responsability
I certify that I have participated in the work above specified and take public responsibility for its content.
I certify that the manuscript represents an original work and that none of the material in the manuscript has been previously published, is included in another manuscript, or is currently under consideration for publication elsewhere, whether in printed form or in electronic media, except that described in the attachment.
In case of acceptance of this text by Demetra: Alimentação, Nutrição & Saude, I declare to be in accordance with the policy of public access and copyright adopted by Demetra, which provides as follows: (a) the authors retain the copyright and grant to the Journal the right of first publication, the work being simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which allows the sharing of the work with acknowledgment of authorship and initial publication in this journal; (b) authors are authorized to enter additional contracts separately for non-exclusive distribution of the version of the work published in this journal (eg, publishing in institutional repository or book chapter), with acknowledgment of authorship and initial publication in this journal; and (c) authors are permitted and encouraged to post and distribute their work online (eg, in institutional repositories or on their personal page) at any point before or during the editorial process, as this may lead to productive changes, as well as increase the impact and citation of the published work.
2. Conflict of Interest Statement
I certify that there is no conflict of interest in connection with the submitted article.
Date, signature and full address of all authors.