Professoras das séries iniciais falam sobre crianças que ocupam a posição de ser/estar gordas

Abstract

This study is the product of a research which aims to analyze how teachers who work in elementary schools describe children who are fat, trying to understand some of the implications of these concepts for an improvement in nutritional education in schools. The expression to be fat is being used to attribute to a fat body a non- essentialist character, not fixed, not assuming a medical view based on anthropometric measures. The research material analyzed consists of interviews with undergraduate students of Pedagogy belonging to the Universidade Regional Integrada do Alto Uruguai e das Missões as well as Nutrition and Health graduates who work as teachers. The research material as well as its analysis has been undertaken based on Cultural Studies of post-structural theories linked to Michel Foucault. The research presents some considerations on how the medical discourse creates obesity and its implications. It discusses the fat body, how a fat body is referred to in post-modern times, as well as when thinn