<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Teaching microbiological food safety and food safety in general at the primary school level is crucial, because behaviour is more easily influenced at that stage. The purpose of this review was to identify challenges in the education of primary school children related to microbiological food safety and to review the type of activities published and evaluated in the scientific literature targeting primary school children. The most frequently applied approach in the reviewed studies is target population-tailored workshops. The knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) model is most widely used for evaluation purposes, based mostly on the self-report and recall levels. Studies that compared theoretical and practical educational approaches unanimously demonstrated that theoretical awareness is not effective for changing and maintaining appropriate behaviour, whereas experiences had a significant impact. The review highlighted the differences and deficiencies in home economic teachers regarding formal education. The development of proper teaching methodologies and educators seems to be the key to the achievement of aware, confident, and skilled students (on the consumer level) during primary education.</p></abstract>

Teaching microbiological food safety and food safety in general at the primary school level is crucial, because behaviour is more easily influenced at that stage. The purpose of this review was to identify challenges in the education of primary school children related to microbiological food safety and to review the type of activities published and evaluated in the scientific literature targeting primary school children. The most frequently applied approach in the reviewed studies is target population-tailored workshops. The knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) model is most widely used for evaluation purposes, based mostly on the self-report and recall levels. Studies that compared theoretical and practical educational approaches unanimously demonstrated that theoretical awareness is not effective for changing and maintaining appropriate behaviour, whereas experiences had a significant impact. The review highlighted the differences and deficiencies in home economic teachers regarding formal education. The development of proper teaching methodologies and educators seems to be the key to the achievement of aware, confident, and skilled students (on the consumer level) during primary education.

Challenges and strategies in the education of primary school children related to microbiological food safety – a review

Sanitarno inženirstvo International Journal of Sanitary Engineering Research

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Teaching microbiological food safety and food safety in general at the primary school level is crucial, because behaviour is more easily influenced at that...

Challenges and strategies in the education of primary school children related to microbiological food safety – a review

Published Online: Sep 08, 2020

Page range: 25 - 38

Received: Nov 26, 2019

Accepted: Dec 20, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ijser-2019-0004

Keywords
food safety, education, schoolers, primary school

© 2020 Andrej Ovca et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Challenges and strategies in the education of primary school children related to microbiological food safety – a review

Published Online: Sep 08, 2020

Page range: 25 - 38

Received: Nov 26, 2019

Accepted: Dec 20, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ijser-2019-0004

Keywordsfood safety, education, schoolers, primary school

© 2020 Andrej Ovca et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
food safety, education, schoolers, primary school