Moroccan Teachers’ Conceptions on Food Education: New Perspective

Food education is a component of health education which plays an important role in the development
of citizenship and human resources of a country [1]. School is a vital element in implementing some
positive behavior and making students drop out other dangerous behaviors. Today educating students
to healthy nutrition allows them to develop the abilities to act, choose, decide on an autonomous and
responsible manner and capacity face reality and deal with conflict [1]. Food is present in our daily
lives and in our curricula but the problem lies in the manner/ way in which it is processed, hence the
importance of this study. And as the teacher constitutes a strong link of the didactic transposition, he
may influence this transposition by his conceptions, values and practices [2]. In this context, we are
interested in this study to identifying the teacher’ conceptions about food education, and answering
the following question: - What are the Moroccans teachers’ conceptions about food education? We
have thus used as a tool of investigation in the form of a questionnaire administered to 200 teachers
at all grade levels. The conception of Moroccan high school teachers towards food education is more
often expressed by implementing the Promotion of Health (HP) approach, while those at primary and
middle school adopt a Biomedical approach (BM) in their definitions. This could be in relation to each
grade level teachers’ educational background of each level school.