Contextualizando a merenda escolar e a importância da agricultura familiar no semiárido paraibano: um estudo de caso em Serra Branca-Paraíba.

Abstract

This paper aims to describe the school feeding in public schools Serra Branca - Paraiba, contextualizing it in the learning of pupils surveyed. He uses concepts essential to the study: agriculture, family fanning, the national school feeding program, among others. Thus, the study shall evaluate in practice using the public schools in their school lunches and snacks to emphatically demonstrate the requirement of daily meals for the students who attend, these students often poor and low income, which depend on many times of school meals to feed themselves. The questionnaires used in the public schools of the study seeks to understand the importance of school lunches for students, contextualizing the teaching and learning in the classroom. It is observed that there is a major concern of public managers in buying school lunches family farming, however, that concern arises from the law, and not human and social concerns of managers, which should have a greater mobilization in pursuit of quality life for the society it represents. It is seen also that the family farmers have organized more power and voice in the discussion forums, social movements in general, to organize production and facilitate access to markets local / regional, demonstrating to society that family food producer is diverse and ever improving quality, by not using pesticide products, and therefore more healthy, but slightly more expensive. It is particularly essential to change the perception that there is school feeding for malnourished and needy students, but that this should be seen as a meal to keep the students fed while at school, regardless of their economic situation, and not as a mechanism to eradicatemalnutrition of the students. Contextualized education thus represents the largest outlet for the alienation experienced by the working class and their children.