Drinking-Related Metacognitive Guidance Contributes to Students’ Expression of Healthy Drinking Principles as Part of Biology Teaching

Michal Zion and Hagit Cohen
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Michal Zion: School of Education, Bar-IIan University, Ramat-Gan 5290002, Israel
Hagit Cohen: School of Education, Bar-IIan University, Ramat-Gan 5290002, Israel

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 4, 1-19

Abstract: Biology education has adopted the goal of educating future generations about sustainable, healthy habits. The current paper focuses on drinking-related nutritional literacy—the characteristic of health education that refers to aspects of healthy drinking: drinking enough water and fewer sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs). The study aims to foster school students’ critical thinking about the quality and the quantity of what they drink in everyday life. Facilitating students’ metacognitive awareness was achieved, as they were engaged in a biology learning activity centered on the importance of healthy drinking in everyday life. The study focused on two research questions: 1. What is the contribution of drinking-related metacognitive guidance to the development of metacognitive awareness concerning healthy drinking among students? 2. What is the contribution of drinking-related metacognitive guidance to the way students express the principles and importance of healthy drinking as part of their metacognitive awareness thinking process? The findings indicate a quantitative and qualitative improvement in drinking-related metacognitive awareness among those students who received metacognitive guidance as part of biology teaching. This paper suggests that metacognitive guidance has a significant pedagogical potential to improve sustainable healthy habits among children.

Keywords: healthy drinking; metacognition; metacognitive guidance; sugar-sweetened beverages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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