La elaboración de perfiles y paisajes alimentarios como dispositivos multimodales para la educación alimentaria desde enfoques complejos en la formación del profesorado

Abstract

In a research project, we designed, implemented, and evaluated a Didactic Unit (DU) for Biology Teacher Education, focused on human food. This article aims to characterize the innovative methodology used to develop Food Profiles (FP) and Food Landscapes (FL), multimodal tools organized from photographs of food-related episodes, accompanied by comments describing the conditions in which these episodes occur. These tools were created by the students themselves, shared on a social network, and organized in a university campus database.

These resources were used in classes, enabling students to analyze their eating practices from complex perspectives, consistent with the adopted view of human food, which inseparably integrates biological/nutritional and sociocultural components. The results show that the organization and implementation of this methodological tool led to the production of a significant inventory of students’ food practices and contexts, which served as a platform for problematization and analysis in various DU activities.