Teaching healthy eating habits in the Brazilian context in the light of Carolina Maria de Jesus

Abstract

This study investigated didactic possibilities that flow from the approach of the work “Quarto de Despejo: diário de uma favelada”, by Carolina Maria de Jesus, to mobilize the theme “healthy eating habits” in the context of the fourth and fifth year of teaching. Fundamental. Specifically, it aims to problematize healthy eating habits based on the life trajectory of Carolina Maria de Jesus; analyze the potential of approaches to the topic with the fields of natural sciences, humanities and health, based on the work “Quarto de Eviction”; highlight the contributions of a didactic sequence, generated from this work, to teaching the proposed topic. This is an exploratory study, of a qualitative nature, from which a didactic sequence was generated, which offers theoretical
alternatives so that subjects can question existing inequalities, from the most basic to the right
to food. Unlike a school that aims to train subjects to accept reality, our aim is to contribute to the development of didactic proposals that encourage subjects, from the youngest ages, to be uncomfortable with unequal reality and, organized, seek to transform it.