Teaching/learning methods and students' classification of food items

Health Education

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 66-85

  Hamilton Ekeke, Joy Telu ^a   Thomas, Malcolm ^b  

^a NIGER DELTA UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Food products; Health education; National curriculum; Nutrition; Teaching methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650194755     PISSN: 09654283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09654281111094982     Document Type: Article

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