The purpose of this study is to investigate the current status of the nutrition education and to suggest an improvement plan. The survey was conducted from 156 nutrition teachers in the elementary, middle and high school in Chung Cheong Nam Do by usin...
The purpose of this study is to investigate the current status of the nutrition education and to suggest an improvement plan. The survey was conducted from 156 nutrition teachers in the elementary, middle and high school in Chung Cheong Nam Do by using a self-filling type questionnaire. The questionnaire which was used in the preceding study has been revised, supplemented, and reorganized to suit the research purpose. The collected data were analyzed statistically with SPSS(Ver.12) program and I set the significance level at 0.05(or 5%). The following is the summary of my research results.
The questionnaire was composed of items relating to general characteristics of nutrition teachers, the situation of nutrition education, the method and frequency of nutrition education, the contents of nutrition education, the problem and solution of nutrition education, the necessity of nutrition education.
1. General characteristics
Most of the nutrition teachers was showed females(99.4%) and the highest proportion of respondents was from 36 years of age to 40 years of age(51.9%). Their level of education was that the graduate school graduation(24.4%), the university graduation(48.7%). The highest proportion of respondents career was from ten years to sixteen years(54.5%). It was found that 73 percent of the nutrition teachers work from forty-five hours to fifty hours a week. Most of the school was in a rural area(71.1%). The elementary school was within 71.2 percent, the independent cooking was 64.1 percent, the joint cooking was 28.8 percent, the joint control was 7.1 percent. Also, one school meal 76.9 percent was a large part in the number of the times in a school meals in a day.
2. The investigation whether the nutritional education is educated.
64.1 percent of the respondents gave an effect to educate the nutritional education, but it was comparatively low in comparison with another cities and provinces. 82.1 percent had a training experience about the nutritional education. In the nutritional education types, 72.4 percent of the respondents gave an effect to the indirect education type while 26.3 percent educate in direct, and the rest was 1.3 percent.
According to the number of nutritional education execution, 34.6 percent was once in a week, 25 percent was an irregular education, 25 percent was once in a month, 9.6 percent was two times in a month, and then 7,7 percent was once in one school term.
In the information gathering method, the information gathering with internet took the most position in 78.2 percent.
According to a survey, the most part of the respondents selected that the optimal student number for the nutritional education execution was 1,000 persons and under.
3. The investigation of the nutritional education types
In the time of educated directly about the nutritional education, 28.8 percent was taken in a nutritional counseling center, 19.2 percent was taken in a discretion activities, 17.9 percent was taken in a special activities, 1.3 percent was taken in a regular classes, and the another was 32.7 percent.
In an indirect education about the nutritional education, the home correspondence was taken the most part in 57.7 percent. In the reason not educated directly, 30.1 percent of the respondents thought that they had not the allocation times for a direct education, 28.8 percent thought that they had not enough times due to a meal service works, 17.9 percent thought that school manager and other teachers had a lack of understanding about the nutritional education, and 16.7 percent of the nutrition teachers thought that they had not a lack of confidence in their duties.
4. The necessity of the nutritional education
Of the most serious dietary life of Korean students, 59.6 percent was an unbalanced diet and 20.5 percent was a fatness. For the improvement of the dietary life problems, 78.2 percent of the respondents had a understanding that the nutritional education affected to improve the dietary life. The expectation effect of the nutritional education was showed that 67.9 percent was a desirable dietary life and 28.2 percent was a preparation of a systematic curriculum.
As mentioned above, the nutrition teacher must have a sense of responsibility and duty to execute the effective nutritional education, and make a ceaseless effort to develop a nutritional education curriculum, government guidelines for teaching, study data. The nutrition teacher has played dual role to satisfy the conditions in a meal service and a nutritional education. But this is contrary to each other in a practical conditions. Therefore, the policy measures are prepared as like the apportionment of a workload, the nutrition teacher disposition with one person per one school and the internship nutrition teacher disposition.