초등학교 영양교사를 위한 영양교육 프로그램 개발

Abstract

Teachers who are responsible for childrens education are very important to help the school agechildren to have right nutrition knowledge, they are confronted with difficulties to teach due to the lackof nutrition knowledge as well as materials that can be easily understood by children. The purpose ofthis study was to look into the basic knowledge of elementary school teachers on nutrition. Theelementary school teachers investigated didnt get good marks in nutritional knowledge, food andcooking method knowledge and sanitary knowledge, as the collective averages in those areas wererespectively 56.08± 14.80, 60.52 ± 10.95, and 45.25 ± 16.13. Sixty seven percent of respondentsthe largest group, acquired nutritional information through mass media, but they wanted to be giventeaching information in the form of educational materials(49.0%). More than 70 percent believed thatnutrition should be educated by nutrition teachers (p<0.01), and as for what should be handled innutrition education, they thought that students should be educated to build the right eating habits(59.5%). Based on the results, a sequential nutrition education program for the lower grades of schoolchildren was developed. This program consisted of five different categories, and according to theresults, that was designed to deal with the knowledge of teachers on nutrition, food, cooking methodand hygiene, table manners and food-borne illness.