Actions on nutrition education with children in daycare university: representatives' and teachers' perception about the playful

Abstract

Objectives: To analyze the nutritional educational actions implemented with preschoolers in a university day care center in the perspective of those responsible and to describe the perception of those responsible for preschool children about the educational actions applied. Method: A qualitative, descriptive study using the Focal Group technique with those responsible and semi structured interview with the teachers of the Nursery of the Federal University of Fluminense who were submitted to educational actions. Content analysis was carried out according to Bardin besides Vygostki's thought related to the process of teaching learning. Results: From the analysis emerged two categories: Actions in Food and Nutritional Education in the perception of the teachers; and Actions in Food and Nutrition Education - changes in eating habits in teachers' view. Conclusions: it can be said that there was learning through play activities in a moment of relaxation for children where the culinary act was a practice of social integration.