食農教育──減少午餐廚餘，珍惜食糧之行動研究

Agriculutre Education: a case study on reducing kitchen waste and conserving resources

食農教育可包括飲食教育、營養教育、農事體驗等。本研究採取行動研究，以一所國小高年級某班為研究場域，以八週為研究時程。透過導師帶領全班二十六位同學，結合食農教育，強調健康飲食，減少午餐廚餘，避免浪費食糧，為本研究之目的，期作為教師在班級經營之參考。研究結論如下：1.瞭解學生偏好蔬菜、炸物，增加蔬菜知識，減少午餐廚餘。2.降低攝取不良零食，間接增進學生午餐食量。3.藉由蔬菜實物素描，親近日常食用蔬菜，有助拉近彼此距離。4.配合規畫農事，體驗食農教育，增進學生「做中學」的精神。研究建議如下：1.結合食農教育，納入校本課程，促進學生親近蔬菜。2.配合班親會、親職講座，探討有益與不利孩子的零食。3.辦理校園蔬菜寫生，提升學生對蔬菜的親切感。4.透過策略聯盟，連結區內學校，共同發展食農教育。

Food and agriculture education include such themes as diet education, nutrition education and experiential farming. This research employs action research on a class of 26 six graders, lasting eight weeks. The aim of this research is to focus on helathy diets, convserve food resources, and reduce lunch waste through food and agriculture education. The findings are as follows: 1. Understanding students' food preferences and introducing basic food knowledge can help reduce kitchen waste. 2. Reducing snacks contriubte to better appetite for lunch. 3. Sketching vegetables can lead to students' prefeferneces for those veggies. 4. Experiential farming is a great way for leanring by doing. The findings have the following implications. 1. Inclusion of food and agrilculture education in the curriculum can help students' prefernce for vegitables. 2. Seminars on children's diet can be held on Parents' Day. 3. Hosting campus wise competitions for veggie sketches can enhance students' affinity for vegitables. 4. To develop food and agriculture education, schools can form stratetic alliences with other school in the neighboring regions.