Expresiones valorativas de alimentación en los programas de alimentación escolar (PAE) de los colegios distritales de Bogotá d.c., en el periodo 2011-2022

Abstract

Values related to food constitute a fundamental axis for understanding the discourses that predominate in the School Feeding Program (PAE). This research analyzes the explicit and implicit value judgments present in the formulation of the PAE by district institutions in Bogotá, which guide positions and actions regarding food. The study adopted a qualitative approach based on content analysis and comprised three stages: first, the research included a comprehensive selection of official documents that guide and regulate school feeding programs; second, these documents were examined using Atlas.ti software, a tool that allowed for detailed and systematic categorization of the information contained in the texts in order to identify the value judgments present; finally, based on Javier Echeverría's theoretical framework, the valuations found were interpreted by applying Freguean axiological function. The results revealed a marked predominance of value judgments linked to technical, basic, economic, and social value systems, indicating that food within the School Feeding Program (PAE) has an instrumental role guided by a logic of sustainable development. This view reduces the understanding of the food phenomenon to its operational and economic dimension, relegating essential cultural, social, political, and ecological aspects necessary to understand food as a complex, interdependent phenomenon closely linked to the social field of environmental education.