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Nutrition education in schools—educating the children
Author(s) -
Passmore Sandra
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
journal of human nutrition and dietetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.951
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1365-277X
pISSN - 0952-3871
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-277x.1996.00475.x
Subject(s) - medicine , curriculum , nutrition education , medical education , action (physics) , health education , quality (philosophy) , national curriculum , formal education , pedagogy , nursing , gerontology , public health , sociology , philosophy , physics , epistemology , quantum mechanics
There have been considerable changes within health, education and education catering (school meals) services in the last 15 years. This has had a significant impact on the quantity and quality of education that today's schoolchildren receive about nutrition. Schools educate children both through the formal National Curriculum and through the «hidden curriculum». This paper considers the place of nutrition in both, and the links between them. School nutrition action groups are presented as an approach to linking both the formal and informal curriculum