Korean Journal of Community Nutrition (대한지역사회영양학회지)

The Korean Society of Community Nutrition (대한지역사회영양학회)
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A Study on Nursery School Teacher's Knowledge and Education of Nutrition Care in Gwang-Ju

광주지역 어린이집 보육교사의 영양지식과 영양교육 실태

  • Song, Jin (Nutrition Education, Graduate School of Education, Chonnam National University) ;
  • Heo, Young-Ran (Department of Food and Nutrition, Human Ecologe Research Institute, Chonnam National University)
  • 송진 (전남대학교 교육대학원 영양교육) ;
  • 허영란 (전남대학교 생활과학대학 식품영양학과 및 생활과학연구소)
  • Received : 2010.02.04
  • Accepted : 2010.03.17
  • Published : 2010.04.30
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Abstract

This study was done to come up with a solution to effectively increase nutrition knowledge and education among nursery school teachers in the Gwang-ju metropolitan city area. The scores of teacher's nutrition knowledge were around the average of 9.4 points on a 15-point scale, which is about 63.1 points on a 100-point scale. When the types of subjects were compared, we recognized that the nursery school teachers with a college degree or those who have any training/education in nutrition had the highest scores in nutrition knowledge. Also, the nursery schools who have more than 101 children or public nursery schools had the highest scores in nutrition knowledge (p < 0.05). We can conclude that the knowledge of nutrition of nursery teachers is very lacking and it is not as high as it should be. In addition, we can also see that the dietary guidance and nutrition education time spent towards the children was very short. The lack of professional knowledge and education seems to be due to shortage of educational materials and because the teachers themselves lack the knowledge to pass on to their predecessors. In fact, even the teachers themselves feel the need to set up more nutrition-related education programs, obtain more guides and materials to teach them, as well as implement more organized and systemized teaching methods.

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