- Title
- Analysing the Australian obesity epidemic's role in the "design and technologies" national curriculum
- Creator
- Trevallion, Deborah; Owen, Donna
- Relation
- 8th Biennial conference on Technology Education Research. Technology Education: Learning for Life: Proceedings of the 8th Biennial conference on Technology Education Research (Sydney 26-29 November, 2014) p. 98-106
- Relation
- http://www.techedconferenceaustralia.com/
- Publisher
- Design and Technology Association of Australia
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- The national curriculum demands the study of Design and Technologies from Foundation to year 8. Within Design and Technologies students study four areas, one of which is food related to the health and well-being of individuals. This paper will demonstrate the importance of Food in this national syllabus, as the mechanism to equip future citizens with essential food literacy skills required for the 21st century. Food Technology is an inter-disciplinary subject which can also be delivered through other curriculum lens such as PE/H/PD and science, however, it is only within the Design and Technologies lens that critical thinking, knowledge and skill can converge during practical application. Current research highlights many Australian children do not have the knowledge and skill to achieve optimum diets for good health resulting in obesity issues. This paper discusses the possible link between the current obesity epidemic in Australia to the 1992 removal of Food Technology as a mandatory secondary school subject and examines the reintroduction of Food Technology as a vehicle to deliver food and nutrition education grounded on fostering critical thinking, knowledge and skills. Food Technology can be viewed as the catalyst to positively empower students, parents and community attitudes and behaviour for the future.
- Subject
- food technology; obesity; food literacy; health; epidemic; ACARA; national curriculum
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1064255
- Identifier
- uon:17500
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780994202710
- Language
- eng
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