For an ecology of knowledge in the teaching of gastronomy

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Keywords:

Gastronomy, Education, Professional qualification, Ecology of Knowledge,

Abstract

The structure of professional training in Gastronomy in Brazil has been developing over the last few years, currently having technical courses, technologists, bachelor's and master's degrees. Baccalaureate courses in particular are located in federal public universities, which we recognize here as public institutions that have a social function. We also recognize the theoretical ideal of the ecology of knowledge by the author Boaventura de Sousa Santos as a propositional idea for expanding the social function of these institutions. Thus, this essay aims to present a theoretical proposal to think about an ecology of knowledge in the teaching of Gastronomy as a way of enhancing the action of these courses located in public universities and promoting a more critical, emancipatory, engaged and socially referenced education, from a counter-hegemonic perspective of understanding gastronomy and its educational processes.

Author Biographies

Filipe Pessoa dos Santos, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil

Graduado no curso de bacharelado em Gastronomia da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (2016), e atualmente mestrando no Programa de Pós-Graduação de Educação em Ciências e Saúde, do Instituto NUTES de Educação em Ciências e Saúde da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. 

Juliana Dias Rovari Cordeiro, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil

Doutora em História das Ciências, das Técnicas e Epistemologia (HCTE/UFRJ). Professora do Programa de Pós-graduação em Educação em Ciências e Saúde (Instituto Nutes/UFRJ) Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.

Published

2023-01-17

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Section

Ensaios teóricos