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As a mother and teacher,I am most concerned with the health of the children under my care.Looking at children playing in the mud,trying to grow things,they might get themselves dirty all over but seemed very happy and enjoy the hands-on experience prompted me to incorporate food education in my pre-school clsaaroom.
I believe that food education can change children’s eating habits.A sound food education curriculum for the students in pre-school will instill in the minds of these youngsters healthy eating habits that might last for their entire life time.
In order to research the relationship between food education and the formation of children’s eating habits,I did six-month preparation to update my own knowledge on food education as well as establishing a vegetable garden in the kindergarten where I am teaching.During that preparation period,I had also developed a curriculum and learned the skill on how to cultivate students’ learning motivation.With the preparation accomplished,I started a year-long participant observation research in the kindergarten.
This is an account of my research results as well as a set of recommendations that I formulated based on my own experience of teaching in my workplace.
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