Propuesta pedagógica para contribuir a mejorar los hábitos alimenticios y el rendimiento académico de los estudiantes del segundo grado de básica primaria de la Institución Educativa Mega Colegio Bicentenario de San José de Cúcuta.

Abstract

The current document seeks to design a pedagogical proposal that contributes to improve the eating habits and academic performance of the students of second grade of primary school of the educational institution Mega Bicentenario school of Cúcuta, after the diagnosis of these habits in a group of identified students by the academic coordinator and by the classroom teachers as low performance, which was achieved through research with an interpretive epistemological approach of qualitative design under the methodology of pedagogical action research, which I use as techniques and instruments for collecting Useful data for the study, observation with registration in field journals, and semi-structured interviews with key informants, whose results were triangulated and allowed to design the proposal that was implemented and subsequently evaluated, through the application of a questionnaire that identify its effectiveness. The findings obtained lead to affirm that the students object of study do not have healthy eating habits, as a result of the lack of educational practices on food by the institution where they study, due to ignorance of their parents and representatives on the same subject and because the environment facilitates access to junk food, there is no supervision on the products that the school store offers them, which influences their behaviors and consequently in their academic performance, being observed against the proposal implemented in a good disposition and interest in learning new habits by the children addressed