Received: October 5, 2011; Revised: October 11, 2011 Accepted: January 30, 2012.
ABSTRACT
This study aimed to investigate the impacts of children’s culinary education motive and contents consideration on teachers perception of education effectiveness. The data was gathered from 226 of preschool teachers providing culinary education programs using the five-Likert scales. The preschools were chosen from three randomly selected districts in Seoul, South Korea. Descriptive analysis, factor analysis, and regression analysis were utilized for this study. The result indicate that culinary educators designed the contents of the program considering their convenience when their motive is passive, whereas others focussed on the educational purpose such as children’s eating habit formulation, team work, and development of taste sense when their motive is active. The result also confirmed that culinary educators perceived the educational effectiveness (e.g., children’s development of body, team work, and creativeness) in the course of designing culinary education contents when focusing on children’s education.