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  • Ketolainen, Katja (2021)
    Previous studies show that secondary school students participate in school meals in varying degrees. School meals are an important part of students ’school day as they are present at school every day. School meals are part of food education on basic education. With school lunch, students gain energy for study and they can better focus on teaching and learning. However, in many cases, convenience store products attract students more than food served at school. Research objective: The aim of this qualitative case study is to find out what different factors emerge from the students' method of empathy in the texts in relation to school meals. The aim was to find the various reasons raised by the students, which are why they either stay at the school to eat school lunch or go to the convenience store instead. The research questions of the study are: 1. How do students justify staying in to eat school lunch? 2. In what ways do students justify not staying in school meals? Methods. 7th grade students from one unified school in southern Finland participated in the study (N = 127). Data collection was carried out using the empathy method. There were two frame stories, in one of which the student experienced a situation where he went to a convenience store instead of attending school lunch, and in the other he stayed at the school himself to eat despite going to the friends' shop. The material was analyzed by data-driven content analysis. Results and conclusions. The most common reasons for students to stay in school to eat were the food served, the cause-and-effect relationship related to school rules, the healthiness of food, and money. The reasons for going to the store were most often the food served, the friends, the products from the store and the content of the break. The main themes that emerged from the data were ‘Top-down rules and regulations’, ‘Youth-related issues’ and ‘Student-related issues’. In future the research result can be utilized in home economics education and in the development of school meals.
  • Lukkarila, Carla (2015)
    This study was made to find out how the teacher students' comprehend the role of the teacher during the school meals service. It was believed that there was a lack of earlier studies concerning the matter. Although the topic is valuable and under the lens of the ongoing discussion about health and welfare of the nation. The earlier study has come to show that teacher's role in the school meal service is essential. The motive for this study is to recognize the opinion of the teacher students' over this matter. This study was conducted to acknowledge the need to understand current comprehension in the field. The study will serve a future study in the means to illustrate the prevalent situation. The study is qualitative, with parts fashioned by the quantitative research, such as frequency analysis. The data was collected using a static web query. 83 candidates answered and all the material were analyzed. The research material got read, and categorized in groups. The groups were formed by their qualities to model a role of a teacher. Content analysis was applied to set the types, which depicted a role the best. The practice of frequency analysis was used in this study to count how many times the roles were mentioned in the whole sample. It shed a new light to the study in the form of understanding the essence of a teacher during the school meals service. The research result was that the teacher students mentioned four roles for the teacher during the school meals service. The roles are in order based on the commonness of the role; The teacher as a nutrition educator, The teacher as an example, The teacher as a good manners' and etiquette teacher and The teacher as a supervisor and also fifth theme was Other aspects of School meals service, such as not having a role at all. The other part of the study was to focus on the teacher's role's activeness and social side and educative view. It got studied with a result of teacher being active, sociable and educative, viewed by the teacher students. Exploring the views of the teacher students' also means, that the answers are subjective. Therefore it is harder to make an epitome general concept of the matter.