Uma investigação sobre concepções de alimentação saudável de alunos do ensino fundamental

Abstract

This research has analysed the conceptions held by students at the seventh grade of primary school about the concept of “healthy meal”. The choice of this theme acquires social relevance as long as there is an intensive massification of hypercaloric food consumption by brazilian population, leading to less healthy nutritional habits. According to this situation, it is considered that most students have difficulty in noticing that lack or excess of nutrients interfere on people’s quality of life. Thus, a pedagogic intervention was conducted, composed by a problem-situation and a didactic sequence organized according to George Kelly´s Personal Constructs Theory, specifically linked to the Experience Cycle. In this perspective, the objective was to develop the understanding of this concept from the scientific point of view, as well as a series of competences, allowing a positioning when facing situations involving this concept. During the didactic sequence the students used pedagogic tools as the on board diary and the meal diary, besides the videotaped discussion among students, which were also used as research instruments. The results indicated that there was an advance in students´ conceptions about healthy meal, as long as they used scientific explanations to solve a problemsituation.