Nutritional Food and Health Education with Instructive Lessons in the Community School of La Rinconada, Cantón Ibarra, Province of Imbabura

• Main Author: Gómez Chirán, Olga Maria
• Format: Others
• Published: BYU ScholarsArchive 2001
• Subjects: Nutrition counseling; Children > Health and hygiene; Educational Methods; Health and Physical Education; Life Sciences; Medicine and Health
• Online Access: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5369; https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6368&context=etd

The general objective of this work was to offer nutritional food and health education using instructive lessons that were prepared based on the diagnostic of knowledge among teachers and children in the School of La Rinconada. The study is descriptive-cross performed from October 2000 to June 2001. The universe of study is 100% of teachers and children attending schools in the communities of La Rinconada and Cuambo, totaling 104. The considered variables are diet, nutrition, and health-related topics. These variables contemplate the elementary education plan of study, besides providing training to students and teachers. Because the project was developed primarily for educational purposes, the lessons were customized for each community. Ten lectures were taught. These lectures are composed of the following parts: topic, addressee, message, objective, technique, materials, preliminary preparation, initial evaluation, class development, revision, reinforcement, final evaluation, and analysis. The pamphlets of the Healthy Schools (Escuelas Saludables), which became the main source of instruction, were used as the supporting educational material.