In Sweden, food-related education is vaguely incorporated in several mandatory high school subjects but not much is known about how it is incorporated in the biology and natural science subjects. This study aimed to understand how Swedish high school biology and natural science teachers approach and contribute to food-related education within and across subjects. This study follows an explorative case-study approach. Biology and natural science high school teachers (n=10) were recruited for this study. A total of four teachers participated in individual semi-structured interviews. All teachers taught natural sciences, three also taught physical education and a fourth teacher also taught biology and chemistry. The interviews were audio recorded, transcribed verbatim using Microsoft Word, and analyzed using an inductive thematic analysis. The analysis resulted in three major themes: teachers learning objectives in food-related education, teachers’ choice of didactics and cross-curricular teaching. The main findings were that the teachers approached food-related education broadly and had, more or less, the same learning objectives within and across subjects. The teachers expressed varying degrees of collaboration across subjects depending on which subjects they, themselves, were teaching. The teachers all faced challenges regarding dealing with the matter of eating disorders and social media influence which they tackled with various didactical strategies. Numerous factors stand in the way of cross-curricular teaching for food-related education in Sweden, such as time constraints and unclear learning objectives. Several changes are to be made to improve food-related education, Swedish adolescents' nutrition literacy and thereby improve the populations nutritional intake.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-128095 |
| Date | January 2024 |
| Creators | Steib, Céline |
| Publisher | Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för biologi och miljö (BOM) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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