Module 1 – The role of kindergarten staff in helping to change food habits
This module provides kindergarten staff with the tools to enable them to raise awareness of healthy, socially and ecologically sustainable eating cultures in early years settings.
What are the goals of this module?
Unit 1: Understand the role of kindergarten staff in developing food culture and eating habits
Unit 2: Investigate the opportunities and challenges for kindergarten staff
Unit 3: What actions can early years settings take?
After finishing this module I will have learnt:
- to reflect upon eating habits, values and attitudes to food, eating behaviours or table manners and to determine the lasting effect of the kindergarten staff on the development of children´s food habits.
- to identify the role that kindergarten staff play in creating an awareness of a healthy, socially and ecologically sustainable eating cultures in the kindergarten.
- what can be done to change food habits and to make meals healthier and more sustainable.
