期刊名称：Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education
印刷版ISSN：1305-8223
电子版ISSN：1305-8223
出版年度：2011
卷号：07
期号：04
页码：243-252
出版社：Pamukkale Univ Dept Sci Education
摘要：Incorporating nutrition topics in the primary school curricula should support the
acquisition of nutrition knowledge in different ways and indirectly the development of
healthy eating habits in children and teenagers. In Slovenia, nutrition education is part of
all primary school education levels and may take the form of compulsory and/or elective
school subjects. The main goal of the study was to find out the effectiveness of nutrition
education of 6th graders where home economics is taught as a compulsory subject in ninegrade
primary schools. The sample involved 630 pupils from 28 Slovenian primary
schools. The nutrition knowledge was assessed by a knowledge test at the beginning and
the end of the school year. The results show that the nutrition knowledge of students
significantly improved. The students who scored lower on the test at the beginning of the
school year made most improvement, and the students who scored best on the same test
did not improve significantly. The results show that students' knowledge and
understanding of the facts about energy and nutritive values of the foods is poor.
Understanding a particular nutrient's role in human nutrition, or the energy value of the
foods, requires certain abstract thinking ability, which the students, due to their cognitive
developmental level, find difficult. Therefore, nutrition education should be adapted to the
cognitive level of students and later, in the third triad of primary school, reinforced with
interdisciplinary and constructivist approach.
