Educação Escolar Quilombola: ações pedagógicas para prevenção e controle do sobrepeso e da obesidade em adolescentes

Abstract

Health actions, implemented in school spaces, are of great social and educational relevance for the care of student health, especially with regard to the prevention and control of chronic non-communicable diseases in adolescence. The educational practices in health in a continuous process can develop knowledge, for the self-care of the health and for the prevention of the behaviors of risk to the health of the school adolescents. Thus, it becomes undeniable the role of the educational institution locus of this research to deal with issues related to health. The objective of this work is to analyze, in the Political Pedagogical Project (PPP) of the school, actions that contribute to the prevention of overweight and obesity of quilombola adolescents in dialogue with the National Curriculum Guidelines of Quilombola School Education. This is a qualitative research whose methodological strategy is action research, carried out in a public school. The thematic content analysis technique proposed by Bardin was used to categorize the collected data, which was divided into two phases: exploratory descriptive, through documentary analysis of curriculum, action phase, through the implementation of concrete pedagogical actions as alternatives to assist the resolution of the problem situations mapped by the research. The production of data was through documentary analysis and semi-structured interviews with the school staff (managers, teachers, pedagogical coordination, cooks) and community leaders. The school of the present study is a public institution in the state of Bahia, located in the suburb of Salvador that serves quilombola students, where it was previously identified the percentage of 11.88% of students – the data collection took place from October to December 2021. All ethical aspects of Resolution 510/2016 of the National Health Council (CNS) were respected. The results of this research are presented from three manuscripts and a booklet of educational guidelines, in the prevention and control of overweight and obesity of quilombola adolescents. Manuscript: 1) Pedagogical Actions for the Education of Quilombola Remaining Adolescents; 2) Prevention of Obesity in Quilombola Schoolchildren: Interculturality Actions in the Perception of Lunch Ladies; 3) A Look at Pedagogical Planning for the Prevention and Control of Obesity in Quilombola Adolescents. This research allowed the exchange of experiences among the school staff and may strengthen further studies in the continuing education of teachers who work in schools, which serve quilombola students, so that they can have the potential to implement contributing actions for prevention and control of overweight and obesity in quilombola adolescents whose realities are similar.