Playfulness as a strategy for self-care and hygiene when consuming food in the school environment

Abstract

The article reveals substantial aspects of the research project Self-care in health and playful strategies that improve hygiene habits in the school restaurant, where playfulness is proposed as a self-care and hygiene strategy when consuming food among high school students of the I.E. Santa Marta, Rural Development Concentration Headquarters (CDR) of the municipality of El Águila, Department of Valle. From a qualitative, descriptive approach, it is proposed to improve the hygiene habits of students when consuming the food supplement in the school restaurant, through attractive and easy-to-internalize and replicate playful and pedagogical recommendations. The central objective, therefore, is to design and apply a playful-pedago­gical guide on self-care practices that allow teaching, internalizing and developing effective individual and collective hygiene habits, which prevent and avoid possible health problems among the different educational actors, derived from the consumption of food without proper hygienic precautions.