The Production of Meanings about Food and Nutrition Security during the Technical Training of Community Bakeries Workers

Abstract

This article aims to understand how the production of meanings about Food and Nutrition Security occurs during the technical training of Community Bakeries workers which live in a constant social and food vulnerability state, characterizing them as potential victims of Food and Nutrition Insecurity. To make possible the identifying of the discourse production conditions, as well the affiliation of sense, interdiscourse, incompleteness, forces relations and anticipation, presents in the discourse, the french approach to Discourse Analysis was adopted as a theoretical and methodological framework. In total, 30 workshops of technical training were conducted between the years 2006 and 2010, totaling 290 participants. The workshops were conducted in the conversation groups model to the co-construction of knowledge about Food and Nutrition Security. Through this pedagogical model, the tension between the paraphrastic and polysemic processes was evidenced, indicating the significance of the Food and Nutrition Security term by the workers. It is understood that this signification was possible only due to the education model that understands the subjects as protagonists of their history and actives in the production of new meanings, transforming their social reality.