O que é comer na escola? Da escola à política: uma análise do Programa Nacional de Alimentação Escolar

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the school food policy in Brazil and in Portugal from the reflection about political text adopted in each country as well as the apprehension of how food policies happen in schools. The point unfolds on three main issues: what is eat institutionally; which interpretations can emerge from the analysis of school food policies; which perspective emerge from specific school contexts. For the development of the study was exploratory bibliographical on the Brazilian scientific production on the subject of food/snacks, as well as the review of the literature in the field of social sciences could contribute to thinking (a) the school as an institution where food and (b) the public policy intervention mechanism in this regard. In addition, field research was conducted in two schools in the municipality of Juiz de Fora-Brazil, supplemented by data from two schools of Lisbon-Portugal raised by research "Between the school and the family: children´s food knowledge and eating practices" funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (PTDC/CSSOC/ 111214/2009), held at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon under the responsibility of the Professor Monica Truninger. With the development of this study, based on the perspective of the school as an institution, has identified that the food in these establishments come true standardization by two paths. A, outlined by the demands placed on the school food policies that are based on the notion of Food and Nutritional Security from a logic of risk. The other, tracking food everyday practices by means of the choices made by the school in accordance with the food available and the students ' preferences. So, we have in the complementarity of power-know politics and power legitimated-know the lunch box an "institutional food culture school" which gives rise to the realities lived in each establishment.