Importance of food literacy education for senior secondary school students: food system professionals’ opinions

Nanayakkara, Janandani; Margerison, Claire; Worsley, Anthony

doi:10.1080/14635240.2017.1372695

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“…On the one hand, Ronto et al [62] indicated that the school curriculum could play a vital role in enhancing FL in adolescents. Furthermore, the authors of six papers emphasized the importance of teaching home economics [24,62,64,65], the vital role of academic food literacy programs [66], and the priority of school to impart food knowledge and competences [67]. On the other hand, Ronto et al [24,64,65] emphasized the economic and human resources necessary to impart such knowledge and competences to younger people.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…On the other hand, Ronto et al focused also on the school organization considering the presence and characteristics of school canteens [24,65], school kitchens [24], and the adherence to the National Healthy School Canteen Guidelines [64]. According to authors' point of view stated in eight papers, individuals closer to the subject (i.e., parents, teachers, and peers) may represent important elements to provide specific knowledge and competences to young people [56,57,[62][63][64][65]67,68]. In addition, the characteristics and factors of the home environment (i.e., family demographics) may influence individuals' FL [62][63][64][65].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Towards the Implementation of a Conceptual Framework of Food and Nutrition Literacy: Providing Healthy Eating for the Population

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Lorini

Milani

et al. 2019

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106

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Existing definitions of food literacy (FL) and nutrition literacy (NL) in particular refer to individual knowledge, motivation, competences, and awareness, which determine the relationship between individuals and food, the food system, and nutrition information. Several authors proposed specific conceptualization of the terms. Nevertheless, the description of analogies and differences between FL and NL is still lacking, as is an integrated framework which highlights the meaning of the concepts. This work aims to describe and discuss evidence provided by the literature in order to develop and propose a comprehensive conceptualization of FL and NL to the scientific community. We systematically reviewed six databases, considering the search terms of FL and NL. We collected the antecedents, components, and consequences of both FL and NL. We underlined and traced similarities of the concepts as well as prerogative features through the content analysis of definitions. We obtained 14 definitions of NL and 12 definitions of FL; 42 papers presented antecedents and 53 papers contained consequences. We observed that NL could be considered a specific form of FL. In addition, we noted that the consequences of NL are included in the subset of the consequences of FL and the conceptual limits of FL correspond to the outcome of healthful diet. We conclude that FL and NL build a multifaceted concept which implies both individual and public perspectives. We propose a conceptualization which could be useful to develop an executive framework aimed at providing healthy eating for the population.

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Section: Antecedents Of Flmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Antecedents Of Flmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards the Implementation of a Conceptual Framework of Food and Nutrition Literacy: Providing Healthy Eating for the Population

Vettori

Lorini

Milani

et al. 2019

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106

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“…Children today are suffering from "nature deficit" [107]. This also applies to food, with children increasingly becoming disconnected from the land and communities that produce their food [109,110].…”

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“…It consists of these interrelated domains: food, nutrition and health (including wellbeing); agriculture (as part of the food system), environment and ecology; social development and equity (including economic, cultural and political factors); and the skills and ability for planning, managing, selecting, preparing and eating food [110,122,123]. Research to date has often studied these individually (e.g., nutrition literacy and agricultural literacy) rather than collectively [123].…”

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“…Due to the multi or cross disciplinary nature of food literacy, educating children and society at large poses a real challenge. But food literacy programs at schools are of paramount importance due to the low levels of food and nutritional knowledge and skills amongst consumers as well as the inadequate family support for adolescents to develop healthier food habits [110]. Food literacy concepts should be started in primary school, and the broader aspects of the food system continued into secondary school, when young people are mentally, emotionally and intellectually able to critically analyse them [110,[124][125][126].…”

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Who Cares? The Importance of Emotional Connections with Nature to Ensure Food Security and Wellbeing in Cities

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Abstract:To be "connected" is "to care", because how and what we care about is influenced, and influences, what we are connected with. Emotional connection predicts environmental concern and children exposed to green environments take this appreciation of nature with them into adulthood. However, the majority of the human population is now living within urban areas, where opportunities for people to interact and bond with nature are greatly diminished, thereby potentially threatening the liveability of cities into the future. Connection with nature has been shown repeatedly to benefit human wellbeing and predict pro-environmental behaviours. By definition "nature" includes urban agriculture, which is also an integral component of a city's foodscape, thereby providing opportunities to improve the wellbeing of city inhabitants as well as help ensure food security. This will only be attainable if the next generation has an emotional connection to nature, and the necessary life skills to help them enter adult life as informed food citizens who make healthy and sustainable decisions for themselves as well as others. This paper reviews existing literature on foodscape (or one's food environment) and biophilia (the love of life or living systems) to highlight the need for inter-disciplinary research that combines urban agriculture and food literacy to ensure future food security and wellbeing of urban inhabitants.

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Unravelling the food literacy puzzle: Evidence from Italy

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Importance of food literacy education for senior secondary school students: food system professionals’ opinions

Cited by 21 publications

References 44 publications

Towards the Implementation of a Conceptual Framework of Food and Nutrition Literacy: Providing Healthy Eating for the Population

Towards the Implementation of a Conceptual Framework of Food and Nutrition Literacy: Providing Healthy Eating for the Population

Who Cares? The Importance of Emotional Connections with Nature to Ensure Food Security and Wellbeing in Cities

Unravelling the food literacy puzzle: Evidence from Italy

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