Educação nutricional: um estudo sobre a seletividade alimentar em crianças de creches e pré-escolas

Abstract

This Course Conclusion Work – (Term) is linked to the Pedagogy course - Full Day Degree at the Federal University of Santa Maria/RS. Its theme is nutritional education and food selectivity in children in the early Childhood Education phase, aged between zero and five years old. The research aims to understand the historical and cultural context, investigating which factors influence the feeding of these children and how the school institution acts in face of this reality. It was also investigated in articles and magazines of events in the areas of Pedagogy and Sciences on the theme of education and food selectivity; how food education is linked to the quality of life of children and their families; how the development of learning and development objectives about food occurred in the guiding documents; and how the school positions itself in towards to food education issues and what is taught to children regarding this theme. The methodology was based on the qualitative approach, of a basic nature, exploratory objectives and bibliographic and documentary procedures, for this, a presentation of the historical and legal context about references on the theme was made. Ahead of the observations of the data found, it was possible to problematize possibilities and challenges in the education of children, family and school, when it comes to nutritional education and food selectivity.