| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 地理學系 === 106 === The Food and Agriculture Education is still insufficient in senior high schools in Taiwan, Although the students are experiencing a critical period of values development. It is important to improve people’s awareness of Food and Agriculture Education so that the adolescents can develop more healthy eating habits. In contrast, the Food and Agriculture Education and related activities have been carried out in Japan for a long time. What are the differences on cognition of food and agriculture important issues between the high school students in Taiwan and Japan? In addition, weather their cognition and perspectives of food and agriculture will affect their breakfast behavior.
Hence, this study is aimed to examine the influence of Food and Agriculture Education on the breakfast choice of senior high school students in Taiwan and Japan. In order to investigate their cognition on Food and Agriculture Education and their breakfast choice, the questionnaire where consists of the variables of the participant’s background, perspectives of food and agriculture, and the breakfast choice factors was used. The questionnaires were randomly distributed to the 1 and 3 graders (senior high schools) in Taipei and Chiayi of Taiwan, and Tokyo, Kagoshima of Japan. Finally, 2,156 valid questionnaires were collected in total and the data were analyzed by statistics software SPSS.
The results indicated that the senior high school students in Taiwan and Japan both have fair scores for the cognition on Food and Agriculture Education. In addition, most of the students have the habits of eating breakfast. No matter homemade or eat-out, wheaten food is the main ingredient of Taiwanese senior high school students’ breakfast. In terms of Japanese students, the homemade breakfast mainly contains rice and the eat-out breakfast always consists of wheat products. Furthermore, it is interesting to find that their cognitions on Food and Agriculture Education are correlated with their breakfast eating habits significantly; but do not correlate with their breakfast contents.
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