Food and nutrition education opportunities within Australian primary schools Love, Penelope, Booth, Alison, Margerison, Claire, Nowson, Carly and Grimes, Carley 2020, Food and nutrition education opportunities within Australian primary schools, Health promotion international, vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 1291-1301, doi: 10.1093/heapro/daz132. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Food and nutrition education opportunities within Australian primary schools Author(s) Love, Penelope orcid.org/0000-0002-1244-3947 Booth, Alison orcid.org/0000-0003-4914-7006 Margerison, Claire orcid.org/0000-0002-2722-6128 Nowson, Carly orcid.org/0000-0001-6586-7965 Grimes, Carley orcid.org/0000-0002-9123-1888 Journal name Health promotion international Volume number 35 Issue number 6 Start page 1291 End page 1301 Total pages 11 Publisher Oxford University Press Place of publication Oxford, Eng. Publication date 2020-12 ISSN 1460-2245 Keyword(s) food and nutrition education primary schools curriculum child food science of nutrition child health coordination teachers Summary Schools are regarded as a key setting for obesity prevention, providing an opportunity to reach a large number of children, frequently and over a prolonged period, through formal and informal opportunities to learn about health behaviours. However, the low value placed on health versus academic achievement is a barrier to effective implementation of food and nutrition (F&N) education. This study used a qualitative exploratory approach to explore the views of teachers and key health and education sector stakeholders regarding opportunities for F&N education within the Australian primary school setting. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to explore this topic from the perspectives of state-level coordination and development through to local-level implementation and support within the Australian primary school context. Only 2.6% of the Victorian Curriculum related to F&N education, taught through two (of seven) learning outcomes: Health and Physical Education, and Technologies. While stakeholders considered child health a priority, and schools an ideal setting for F&N education, barriers included a lack of strategic policy alignment, limited leadership and coordination, a 'crowded curriculum' and poor availability of shelf-ready resources with explicit curriculum links. A cross-curriculum approach was considered essential for F&N education to become embedded as a core component of the curriculum. Language eng DOI 10.1093/heapro/daz132 Indigenous content off Field of Research 1117 Public Health and Health Services 1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2020, The Author(s) Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30134194 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Health School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Thu, 30 Jan 2020, 13:59:56 EST Thu, 30 Jan 2020, 14:12:57 EST Sat, 16 Jan 2021, 05:04:16 EST Sat, 06 Feb 2021, 01:30:10 EST Wed, 17 Feb 2021, 14:59:19 EST Wed, 17 Feb 2021, 15:01:59 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 1 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 11 Abstract Views, 0 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Thu, 30 Jan 2020, 13:59:56 EST

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