title: [The experience of the Permanent Workshop on Health and Nutrition Education - OPEAS: training of professionals for the promotion of healthy nutrition in schools].
abstract: This article analyzes the experience of the Permanent Workshop on Nutrition and Health Education, which provides ongoing education on health and nutrition for school nutritionists and educators. In 2009, nutritionists, principals/management assistants, pedagogical coordinators, teachers and nutrition undergraduates attended 10 workshops, which were based on Freire and Pichon-Rivière´s framework theories. Data analysis was performed using the Discourse of the Collective Subject method. At the beginning of their participation in the OPEAS, the relationship between educators and nutritionists was distant and few interdisciplinary activities were conducted. Communication among the school team, collaborative work with involvement of the whole school community, inclusion of food and nutrition education in the curricula, and provision of food as the central pedagogical tool were considered central to the promotion of healthy nutrition. In the final evaluation four central ideas were highlighted defining OPEAS as being important for knowledge acquisition, a setting for reflection, an opportunity for integration and a platform for putting ideas into practice. Ongoing education should be implemented with school professionals aiming to foster actions to promote healthy nutrition at school.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Santos, SP, 11015-020. claudia.juzwiak@unifesp.br
authors.forename: Claudia Ridel
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Juzwiak
authors.forename: Paula Morcelli
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: de Castro
authors.forename: Sylvia Helena Souza da Silva
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Batista
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D004493:Education; D005522:Food Services; D006266:Health Education; D052756:Nutritional Sciences / Q000193:education*; D012574:Schools