Enabling sustainable diets into elementary education: Participatory action research

Yayuk Farida Baliwati (Department of Community Nutrition, Faculty of Human Ecology, IPB University, FEMA Building 2nd Floor IPB Dramaga Campus, Bogor, West Java 16680, Indonesia)
Akifa Laila Rusyda (Postgraduate Programs, Faculty of Public Health, Universitas Indonesia, Depok, West Java 16424, Indonesia)
Cesilia Meti Dwiriani (Department of Community Nutrition, Faculty of Human Ecology, IPB University, FEMA Building 2nd Floor IPB Dramaga Campus, Bogor, West Java 16680, Indonesia)
Siti Amanah (Department of Communication and Community Development, Faculty of Human Ecology, IPB University, IPB Dramaga Campus, Bogor, West Java 16680, Indonesia)
Resa Ana Dina (Department of Community Nutrition, Faculty of Human Ecology, IPB University, FEMA Building 2nd Floor IPB Dramaga Campus, Bogor, West Java 16680, Indonesia)
Prita Dhyani Swamilaksita (Department of Community Nutrition, Faculty of Human Ecology, IPB University, FEMA Building 2nd Floor IPB Dramaga Campus, Bogor, West Java 16680, Indonesia)
Jihan Alfira (Department of Community Nutrition, Faculty of Human Ecology, IPB University, FEMA Building 2nd Floor IPB Dramaga Campus, Bogor, West Java 16680, Indonesia)
Veny Rachmalinda (Department of Community Nutrition, Faculty of Human Ecology, IPB University, FEMA Building 2nd Floor IPB Dramaga Campus, Bogor, West Java 16680, Indonesia)

Journal of Community Service and Empowerment
Vol. 6 No. 3 (2025): December

School-based nutritional education is a promising intervention in overcoming public health nutritional problems with desirable results through behavioral changes. The present study aims to analyze nutritional contents or topics on Pancasila Student Profile (Independence Curriculum) on the sustainable diet promotion in elementary school settings. The design of the present study was a qualitative Participatory Action Research (PAR), recruited purposively 30 elementary teachers. The study was conducted at SD Plus Rahmat, Kediri, Indonesia from June to July 2024. The nutritional education consisted of three sessions, including introduction, project-based module development (learning plans), and module presentation and discussion. Result shows that the sustainable diets topic has been integrated on the P5 learning activity theme through ‘Sustainable Lifestyle” in phase A, B, and C among all classes. The topics of sustainable diets on the previous curriculum and lesson plans were performed using content analysis. The content analysis maps the previous topics related to the sustainable diets in the P5 module which has been developed by school. The result shows that learning hours for nutritional education at the elementary class settings was estimated around 68 – 110 learning hours in a year. The learning activity was arranged following four types of activity, including introduction, contextualization, action, and reflection.