MAKING SUBALTANITY

THE LUNCH LADIES IN THE DOCUMENTS AND INITIATIVES OF THE FEDERAL ADMINISTRATION OF THE PNAE

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merendeira, food education, school feeding, public policies, education

Abstract

This paper deals with the lunch lady (Merendeira), a professional responsible for preparing school meals in Brazilian public schools and who plays a key role in achieving the goals of the National School Meals Program (PNAE): to contribute to the biopsychosocial growth and development, learning, school performance and the formation of healthy eating habits of students. Despite the importance of the lunch lady for the program, her educational potential is often invisible and unrecognized in the school environment. Because of this, this study aimed to investigate what are the documents and initiatives developed by the federal management of PNAE that involve the lunch lady and if they can contribute to the (de)valorization of her profession and her maintenance as a subject that does not participate in the decisions in the school environment, reinforcing her subaltern position. The document analysis allowed to verify that the program has a legal framework to strengthen and enhance the roles of the lunch ladies, especially concerning the role of educator. However, the analysis suggests that the actions are more focused on the scope of registration in the official discourse than on representation/representation, which can contribute to their social discredit and the consolidation of their role as a subordinate subject. 

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Author Biographies

Mariana Belloni Melgaço, National Education Development Fund

Public servant of the National Education Development Fund - Ministry of Education. Master's student of the Graduate Program in Education at the University of Brasília - UnB.  

Rodrigo Matos-de-Souza, University of Brasilia -UnB

He is a Professor at the School of Education at the University of Brasilia -UnB. President of the Brazilian Association of (Auto)Biographical Research -BIOgraph, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Linhas Críticas.

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Published

2022-05-06

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Belloni Melgaço, M., & Matos-de-Souza, R. (2022). MAKING SUBALTANITY: THE LUNCH LADIES IN THE DOCUMENTS AND INITIATIVES OF THE FEDERAL ADMINISTRATION OF THE PNAE. Educação Em Revista, 38. Retrieved from https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/edrevista/article/view/34023

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Vol. 38 (2022)

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