Study on Nutrition Education for Elementary Schools in the Kyungnam Area.
- Author:
Hyun Sook YOON
1
;
Jung Suk RO
;
Eun Sil HER
Author Information
1. Department of Food and Nutrition, Changwon National University, Changwon, Korea.
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
elementary school;
nutrition education;
education method;
audio visual
- MeSH:
Education*;
Gyeongsangnam-do*;
Humans;
Periodicals;
Periodicals as Topic;
Physical Education and Training
- From:Korean Journal of Community Nutrition
2000;5(1):63-73
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to investigate the status of nutrition education at elementary schools. A total of 226 elementary school teachers within Changwon and Milyang city participated in this study . The results of this study are as follows. The average score on a test of nutrition knowledge was 4.40 out of 10, and teachers of Milyang districts type scored significantly higher on nutrition knowledge than teacher of Changwon rural and Milyang rural districts. Only 9.0% of the teachers had nutrition education training. 64.1% of th total had teaching experience in nutrition, 91.0% of that was being taught as a part of physical education and home economics. The information source for nutrition education was mainly guide books and magazine and newspaper articles. Current nutrition education was being taught mainly by lecture(85.0%) but the preferred methods of teaching in nutrition education were small group discussion(44.3%), role-playing(22.9%) and lecture(21.4%). Audio visuals aids were used by 45.5% of the teachers and the most common of them were VTR(43.1%) chart(22.4%) as preferred audio visuals aids of them were VTR(71.9%) adn actual model(14.1%).
