Research into food education in special (primary) education

Published Sep 16, 2021

Are enough high-quality and suitable materials for food education available for special (primary) education? Is there room and a need to devote attention to food education? And what could potentially be done to better align needs and supply? The Louis Bolk Institute, together with Special Heroes, Jong Leren Eten and JOGG, wants to map this out.

Research into food education in special (primary) education

The parties involved have therefore developed a questionnaire about food education. Do you work in special education (SBO, SO, VSO, PRO)? Or are you involved in healthy eating in special education? Then share your practical experience through the questionnaire.

Filling it in takes approximately 10 minutes. The answers will be processed anonymously. Feel free to share this message with your colleagues. The more experiences and opinions, the clearer the picture will be.

You can complete the questionnaire here.

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