Development of Food Competence in Early Childhood Education

Autor/inn/en	López-Banet, Luisa; Miguélez Rosique, José Antonio; Martínez-Carmona, Marina; Ayuso Fernández, Gabriel Enrique
Titel	Development of Food Competence in Early Childhood Education
Quelle	In: Education Sciences, 12 (2022), Artikel 64 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (López-Banet, Luisa) ORCID (Martínez-Carmona, Marina)
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2227-7102
Schlagwörter	Food; Competence; Preschool Children; Science Education; Child Health; Eating Habits; Experiential Learning; Plants (Botany); Gardening; Nutrition Instruction; Active Learning; Science Process Skills; Foreign Countries; Spain + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lebensmittel; Kompetenz; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung; Ernährungsgewohnheit; Essgewohnheit; Experiental learning; Erfahrungsorientiertes Lernen; Pflanze; Gartenarbeit; Nutrition education; Ernährungserziehung; Aktives Lernen; Ausland; Spanien
Abstract	The increase in childhood obesity requires the incorporation of nutritional competence into school programs through appropriate activities, starting in the early years. In addition, it is important to promote scientific and cognitive skills during childhood education. The main objective of this study was the implementation of an instructional sequence focused on the learning of skills such as observation, measurement, or interpretation of data related to plants, their germination, and their growth, as well as its relation with the development of food competence. To do so, a set of differentiated activities, organized into several stages, was designed, starting from simple and concrete situations and progressively increasing in complexity and abstraction. The aims were to express ideas about known fruits, vegetables, and legumes in order to expand them by learning new information through student-centered activities, in which children were able to practice and talk about science. The activities were carried out in a class of 24 students aged 4-5 years and data were compared with a control group. The results revealed that the children were motivated in all the activities, which provided an excellent opportunity to initially develop an interest in science and to start to develop food competence in the early years. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01