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- Marketing e alimentação no espaço escolar: estímulos sensoriais /corporais e a sua apropriação pelas crianças ]Publication . Horta, Ana; Alexandre, Sílvia; Truninger, Mónica; Teixeira, José; Silva, Vanda Aparecida daEste artigo visa contribuir para melhorar o conhecimento sobre os contextos de alimentação das crianças durante o tempo escolar. Partindo do pressuposto de que as micro-geografias alimentares (isto é, os elementos visuais e físicos como o sabor, a textura, o cheiro) e ainda o contexto social são fatores influentes na escolha dos alimentos, analisou-se a alimentação em espaços escolares e comerciais, os elementos visuais e estímulos sensoriais/corporais e a sua apropriação pelas crianças. Foram encontrados fortes contrastes que podem conduzir as crianças a preferir a alimentação disponibilizada no exterior da escola.
- A evolução do sistema de refeições escolares em Portugal (1933-2012): 1º relatório de pesquisaPublication . Truninger, Mónica; Teixeira, José; Horta, Ana; Alexandre, Sílvia; Silva, Vanda Aparecida da
- Competing food messages and its appropriation by children at schools and its surroundingsPublication . Horta, Ana; Alexandre, Sílvia; Truninger, Mónica; Teixeira, José; Aparecida, VandaSchool menus represent a rational approach to eating, following nutritional expertise and food safety standards, but children are exposed to food offers that compete with the school menus. In this paper we intend to understand how competing and contradictory rationalities related to food are expressed in concrete visual sights and representations of food, made available to children in school canteens and food shops in the surroundings of schools, and appropriated by them. The empirical data was collected in four primary and secondary public schools in the area of Lisbon. Food-related sights, messages and images displayed at schools and in its surrounding commercial food outlets were subject to analysis, together with data from interviews with school directs and kitchen staff, and focus groups with parents and children, and direct observation. Results show sharp contrasts between sights and representations of food at school canteens and at commercial food outlets outside schools. Data also suggests that subjection to supervision, control and normatively discourse of diner ladies in the canteens stand out against autonomy, freedom and self-management of food purchases in the street. Parents approve and even encourage their children to eat outside the school, as it seems a way of experiencing life, gaining autonomy, socialising and exhibiting a higher social position relatively to their peers.
- School meals in Portugal: governing children s food practicesPublication . Truninger, Mónica; Horta, Ana; Teixeira, JoséDrawing on a post-Foucauldian conceptual framework we look at the rationalities that inform the organization of the Portuguese school meals and the implementation of these rationalities to transform and normalize children eating habits. The empirical material is drawn from a thematic documental analysis of the school meals regulatory framework from the 1970s up until nowadays. The objectives are threefold: 1) to describe the continuities and discontinuities of official discourses on school meals institutional practices; 2) to look at the ways children, health and food are placed and interpreted in those documents; 3) to describe and explain trajectories of school meals governmentalities and its plural arrangements. It was possible to identify five types of school meals governmental regimes: the Authoritarian ; the Democratic , the Modern , the Consumer and the Obesity and Risk . These regimes are intertwined and organize in multiple ways the contexts that govern children s eating practices in schools.
- Schools' health education in Portugal: A case study on children's relations with school mealsPublication . Truninger, Mónica; Teixeira, José; Horta, Ana; Silva, Vanda Aparecida; Alexandre, SílviaGiven mounting concerns about overweight and obesity levels in Portugal among children, policy strategies regarding health education through school meals have been implemented to respond to this problem. This article analyses the evolution of health education policies on school meals since the implementation of the democratic political regime in Portugal (1974) paying attention to the rationale behind these policies. It also examines how these policies, which have changed the contents of school meals, are being received by children, staff and parents in a primary school of Lisbon. The empirical material draws on qualitative methods (focus groups with children and parents, and interviews with the school and the city council staff). It is concluded that there is a change in school meals policies wherein, discourse wise, it is promoted a holistic view of health. However, in practice, it persists a strong biomedical view of health where food is reduced to its nutritional value, overlooking other holistic aspects that are part of eating with others: social meanings, pleasure and fun, shared tastes and commensality.