Purpose: To investigate the effect of nutrition education and the engagement of students, parents and teachers in addressing school-specific environmental influences in eating problem. Design: This study adopted the a...Purpose: To investigate the effect of nutrition education and the engagement of students, parents and teachers in addressing school-specific environmental influences in eating problem. Design: This study adopted the action research process of diagnosing, action planning, taking action, evaluating, and specifying learning. Each of obese and non-obese male and female students was randomly selected based on physical screening based on obesity criteria. Dietary intake records were taken over seven days as the pre-intervention period. These four students, one of each of their parents and the teacher from the primary school, were given 3 sessions of nutrition education. After the nutrition education, dietary intake records were taken over the subsequent 7 days as the post-intervention period. Lunch observation and lunch menu review were included to identify eating problem of primary school children in school level. Findings: Students were found to consume less whole grains and more food items belonged to the “limited” and “strongly discouraged” as set in government lunch guidelines. Students’ dietary intakes before and after the nutrition education were found improved in their energy intake (p = 0.012), total fat, saturated fat, calcium, sodium, and cholesterol. Conclusion: A participatory model in elementary nutrition education could be effective.展开更多
The main aim is to give a synopsis of the articles which were the first of three phases of an international collaborative research project betweAfrica and a university in China.The overall theme of the project was:Lit...The main aim is to give a synopsis of the articles which were the first of three phases of an international collaborative research project betweAfrica and a university in China.The overall theme of the project was:Literacy development in mary schools.Firstly,an introduction,including the benefits and challenges of the intesearch project collaboration based on reports in literature,is discussed.Secondly,the background othe South Africa-China project and its three phases is described.Thirdly,the literacy developmin primary schools in South Africa is discussed.Lastly,a synopsis of the South African tea’s em-pirical findings providing overviews of literacy development within the early ban and rural education in South Africa is presented.These overviews(together with two remaioverviews not included in this article)serve as a point of departure for the second phasearch project.展开更多
文摘Purpose: To investigate the effect of nutrition education and the engagement of students, parents and teachers in addressing school-specific environmental influences in eating problem. Design: This study adopted the action research process of diagnosing, action planning, taking action, evaluating, and specifying learning. Each of obese and non-obese male and female students was randomly selected based on physical screening based on obesity criteria. Dietary intake records were taken over seven days as the pre-intervention period. These four students, one of each of their parents and the teacher from the primary school, were given 3 sessions of nutrition education. After the nutrition education, dietary intake records were taken over the subsequent 7 days as the post-intervention period. Lunch observation and lunch menu review were included to identify eating problem of primary school children in school level. Findings: Students were found to consume less whole grains and more food items belonged to the “limited” and “strongly discouraged” as set in government lunch guidelines. Students’ dietary intakes before and after the nutrition education were found improved in their energy intake (p = 0.012), total fat, saturated fat, calcium, sodium, and cholesterol. Conclusion: A participatory model in elementary nutrition education could be effective.
文摘The main aim is to give a synopsis of the articles which were the first of three phases of an international collaborative research project betweAfrica and a university in China.The overall theme of the project was:Literacy development in mary schools.Firstly,an introduction,including the benefits and challenges of the intesearch project collaboration based on reports in literature,is discussed.Secondly,the background othe South Africa-China project and its three phases is described.Thirdly,the literacy developmin primary schools in South Africa is discussed.Lastly,a synopsis of the South African tea’s em-pirical findings providing overviews of literacy development within the early ban and rural education in South Africa is presented.These overviews(together with two remaioverviews not included in this article)serve as a point of departure for the second phasearch project.
