Integrating Food Education in Everyday Life of Young People

  • Claudia Lavinia BURULEANU Professor, Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Food Science, Valahia University Targoviste, Targoviste, Romania
  • Laura Monica GORGHIU Assoc. Professor Ph.D., Faculty of Sciences and Arts, Valahia University Targoviste, Targoviste, Romania
  • Gabriel GORGHIU Professor Ph.D., Teacher Training Department, Valahia University Targoviste, Targoviste, Romania
Keywords: Food, nutrition, Health Education, EduforHealth project

Abstract

Nutrition and food education measuresshould be applied starting from early education, in order to encourage and to sustain the adoption of healthy and sustainable diets, which will materialize in the citizens’ quality of life and society welfare. These measures should primarily be targeted at students both during the formal and informal activities. Theoretical aspects learned in the framework of the lessons in classrooms can be well integrated in practical educational approaches, based on meaningful experiences, which increases overall effectiveness.Science snacks laboratories and Cooking laboratories were proposed to the primary and secondary level students, in close cooperation with the higher education students, with the aim to: achieve practical skills; better understand what means ‘’nutrients’’ and how they influence the people life; urge them to think every day life on their dietary choices; better understand the messages of the label related to a certain food; sustain the transgenerational education and improve the communication and the networks creation among the young people; give the first information concerning the entrepreneurship in food production as viable solution for the family prosperity in economical and work satisfaction terms; to draw them near to a career in science and technique.The production of food was the response of the Needs Analysis, being a request of the students from all the six countries of the EduforHealth partnership. The young people enthusiasm and the knowledge acquired were to a great extent, encouraging the teachers to sustain the increasing of the number of practical activities in school education.The particular case of implementation in Romania is described below.

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Published
2017-08-20
How to Cite
BURULEANU, C., GORGHIU, L., & GORGHIU, G. (2017). Integrating Food Education in Everyday Life of Young People. LUMEN Proceedings, 2, 77-86. https://doi.org/10.18662/lumproc.icsed2017.9