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Have you got any cholesterol? Adults' views of human nutrition

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The general aim of our human nutrition project is to develop a health education model grounded in ‘everyday’ or ‘situated’ cognition (Hennessey, 1993). In 1993, we began pilot work to document adult understanding of human nutrition. We used a HyperCard stack as the basis for a series of interviews with 50 adults (25 university students, and 25 adults from offcampus). The interviews were transcribed and analysed using the NUDIST computer program. A summary of the views of these 50 adults on selected aspects of human nutrition is presented in this paper.

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  1. School of Education, Murdoch University, 6150, Murdoch, Western Australia

    Renato Schibeci (Senior Lecturer) &  Khoon Yoong Wong (Lecturer)

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Specializations: educational technology and the teaching-learning process, public understanding of science and technology.

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Schibeci, R., Wong, K.Y. Have you got any cholesterol? Adults' views of human nutrition. Research in Science Education 24, 287–294 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02356355

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