"O cheiro dessa merenda me traz pra escola": a merenda escolar enquanto recurso didático pedagógico na escola Sílvia Karícia em Concórdia do Pará

Abstract

The research entitled “The smell of this lunch brings me to school”: The school lunch as a pedagogical didactic resource at the SILVIA KARICIA school in Concórdia do Pará has as its general objective to analyze the pedagogical role of school lunch, because it is necessary to problematize the ways in which it is constituted. the structuring principles of the programs that regulate school meals in educational institutions. It is also important to examine the theoretical aspects that emphasize the importance of school lunches as a pedagogical resource and, finally, to understand through narratives the pedagogical role that school lunches have in the Sílvia Karícia school located in the municipality of Concórdia do Pará. Thus, the problem of this study is based on three aspects: The ways in which the principles underlying the National School Feeding Program are structured? How can school lunches be used as a pedagogical didactic resource in the classroom? How is school lunch seen at the Sílvia karícia school, located in Concórdia do Pará? The methodological procedures adopted in the development of this research were a qualitative approach, bibliographic research and field research, using a semi-structured questionnaire with predefined questions as an instrument for data collection. In this way, it was found that although a welfare and prescriptive perspective on this theme in the educational field still prevails, food has multiple dimensions, such as pedagogical, cultural, historical, which can be used not only as a pedagogical resource in teaching relationships and student learning in a transdisciplinary way, as well as in the approximation between teacher and student, school and family and in the formation of critical subjects, capable of understanding, questioning, transforming the reality in which they are inserted when exploring the potential that school lunch presents.