| Summary: | 碩士 === 大葉大學 === 環境工程學系碩士班 === 104 === In recent years many incidents regarding food security indicate the lack in wariness for people upon eaten food. It also showed the loopholes in our nation’s gate-keeping on food security. Recently more and more teachers have become concerning the food security. More programs for food education have been established for children to aware and get close to the land in order to improve their comprehension on food and food security. In this study the cognition, attitudes and behavior are discussed for those higher graders of elementary school on food security. The effectiveness of food education is concerned, too. With questionnaires via the approach of action research, an analyses relating preceding and following tests was carried out. Contents of questionnaires were divided into four parts, i.e. Food Security cognition measurement, Food Security Attitude measurement and Food Security Behavior measurement. Collected data were analyzed based upon descriptive statics, independent-sample t verification, paired-sample t verification, variance analysis and Pearson’s correlation analysis. The results show that: (1) There is no apparent significance between a schoolchild’s background variance ( gender and the number of family dining-outs) and the cognition, attitudes and behavior regarding food security; (2) The food security education indeed helps to improve the cognition, attitudes and behavior regarding food security among higher graders of elementary schools; (3) Positive correlation is found in following measurement for schoolchildren’s cognition, attitudes and behavior regarding food security; (4) Those higher graders of elementary schools show high learning willingness to food security education programs. On the whole food security education programs can actually promote cognition, attitudes and behavior regarding food security for schoolchildren.
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