@article{2015,title={A NUTRITION GUIDE FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD ACTIVE STAKEHOLDERS},abstractNode={In this study, it is intended to describe the process of forming "Nutrition Guide" which was the product of the partnership project carried out under the Leonardo Da Vinci Project "A Nutrition Guide for Early Childhood Active Stakeholders". Nutrition guide has been developed as result of two-year cooperation between faculties of differrent fields of expertise who took part in the project from Turkey and four European countries. As a result of the study which was carried out at the beginning of the project using stakeholder analysis to determine the main stakeholder in nutrition education in early childhood, it was determined that pre-school teachers are the main stakeholders for children aged between three and six. In other words, they were determined as the target users of nutrition guide. With an aim to determine the needs of teacher with regard to this issue and the content of the guidebook, needs analysis was performed. According to the results of the needs analysis, nutrition education, the importance of nutrition for children’s health, current situation in the participating countries, attitudes of teachers to nutrition education, best practices, sample nutrition education activities and hints were emphasized in nutrition guide. The application-oriented guidebook established in this project and implemented in different programs/strategies should be evaluated in near future to show how the proposed interventions reach the target groups and to consider what size of effect is possible.},author={Muhammet Ali CEBİRBAY-- D.Esra ANGIN - Nazan AKTAŞ},year={2015},journal={The Journal of International Educational Sciences}}