A study on healthy eating children's music lessons and school performance

Mustafa Kabataş

African Educational Research Journal
Published: January 28 2021
Volume 9, Issue 1
Pages 112-120
DOI: https://doi.org/10.30918/AERJ.91.20.226

Abstract

Healthy nutrition is the main factor affecting the adaptation process of children to school regardless of their education level. Nutrition becomes more important in performance-based lessons such as music lessons. Studies conducted to improve education emphasize the importance of a healthy diet for students to improve school performance. Given that the human environment affects the health of individuals and communities in terms of their performance, discussions on nutrition and health constitute debates involving various aspects of the political, social, economic and cultural developments of societies. It is the health status of individuals that has long-term effects on the well-being of society members and the well-being of the society as a whole. Societies that guarantee good health and nutrition for their citizens can boast of higher outcomes, including high performance in school. The importance of good nutrition increases even more in performance lessons such as music lessons. This healthy eating in Kastamonu province in Turkey's perspective, we did a study on music lessons and school performance. It was held in four different regional schools in Kastamonu province. The selection of these schools assumes that the distribution of schools in the city differs socioeconomically. While interviews were held with 18 teachers in 4 schools in each neighborhood, 42 students were interviewed in the last year for each school. The school categories evaluated were: private, mission schools, and state-owned schools. Two types of research tools were applied to the universe of the study as follows: interviews for both teachers and parents through questionnaires and interview guides were applied to primary school students. In addition, we made some observations in different schools that allow us to see the different health and nutrition opportunities available in these schools. Therefore, data collection for this study is both quantitative and qualitative using the tools mentioned above. The aim of the research is to determine how healthy students are eating in schools; to develop ideas for a healthier diet for students and to present them to managers. Research is important in that it benefits field experts and similar studies. According to the results of the research, both school success and music lesson success increase with a healthy diet. This reveals the importance of healthy nutrition, especially in school children in their developmental age.

Keywords: Music, school, music lesson, healthy eating, performance.

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