Abstract:

This study aims to describe the process of creating the "Food Guide", a product of the partnership project "A Nutrition Guide for Early Childhood Active Partners" carried out within the framework of the Leonardo Da Vinci project. The Nutrition Guide was created as a result of two-year cooperation between academics with different fields of expertise from Turkey and four European countries. The main shareholder of nutritional education in early childhood was determined using the stakeholders analysis method. According to the study, pre-school teachers were identified as the main stakeholders for three to six-year-old children, in other words, the target user of the nutritional guide. The needs of teachers were analyzed in order to create the subject-related needs and the content of the guide. According to the results of the need analysis, the nutritional guide includes nutritional education, the importance of nutrition in terms of child health, the current situation in the participating countries, the attitudes of teachers towards nutritional education, good practices, nutritional education activities examples and clues. The application-oriented nutrition guide created in this project and available in different programs/statistics should be assessed how and how it can affect target groups.

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