Food and nutrition education in school environment: an integrative review

• Main Authors: Aline Tecchio Borsoi, Carla Rosane Paz Arruda Teo, Bruna Roniza Mussio
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho 2016-10-01
• Series: Revista Ibero-Americana de Estudos em Educação
• Subjects: Educação alimentar e nutricional. Saúde escolar. Alimentação escolar. Serviços de saúde escolar.
• Online Access: http://seer.fclar.unesp.br/iberoamericana/article/view/7413

The Food and Nutrition Education is a strategy to promote health and healthy eating habits. The school environment rises as a suitable place to develop these actions. Through Integrative Literature Review, we could identify the characteristics of scientific production on the Food and Nutrition Education at school from 2002 to 2013. The sample of this review consisted of 17 articles. It was observed that it has been giving more emphasis to this issue from 2009. Nine of the selected studies opted for intervention methodologies, and eight of them have proposed to consolidate the practice of educators, administrators and school cafeteria owners, the understanding of Food and Nutrition Education. The actions accomplished were characterized as slightly critical and participatory strategies based on the transmission of information. It concludes the need for approaches to treating eating disorders broadly at school, through problem-solving methodologies that go beyond the mere transmission of information.