FOOD AND NUTRITION EDUCATION: THE DEFENSE OF A COUNTER-HEGEMONIC AND HISTORICAL-CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE FOR EDUCATION
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https://doi.org/10.12957/demetra.2017.28642Keywords:
Education. Health Education. Public Policies. Food Habits. Obesity.Abstract
This essay proposes to problematize the strategies of food and nutrition education in the context of food and nutrition programs, which, in general, have shown little effectiveness in the face of the challenges of the current scenario, considering the continuous increase of overweight and obesity in the Brazilian population. In general, the programs in this area, aim at the dissemination of guidelines, recommendations and information for the consumption of proper and healthy food, with a view to health promotion, having the biomedical approach as hegemonic model. It will seek to point out theoretical and methodological foundations of education that have a historical-critical perspective, focused on the subjects' reflection on themselves, their practices and eating habits, intending to overcome the biologicist perspective. The debate is based on the premise that the act of feeding involves socio-cultural, environmental, economic, emotional and affective dimensions that should not be ignored or subordinated, since they are determinant in the formation of eating habits and choices, or, by contradiction, in the lack of options in these choices. It is understood that these habits are forged, to a great extent, by the living and working conditions of the subjects, with a strong implication in the organization of their daily lives, in function of the limitations that these conditions produce. Therefore, intervening in these choices requires care, because it deals with objective and subjective dimensions, in particular, cultural and social aspects, in addition to requiring an educational practice that is critically grounded and with theoretical consistency, which can contribute to the purposes established in the interventions of Food and Nutrition Education.
DOI: 10.12957/demetra.2017.28642
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