Chinese primary schools encourage children to pay attention to local culture, especially the cultural elements in their daily life. Therefore, childhood food education has been vigorously promoted with an aim to help children experience local culture. Based on literature review and field research, this paper conducts studies on Cantonese culture and childhood food education, examining the importance of traditional local culture on food education. To complement the results from the literature with insights from practice, two action researches were carried out describing childhood dietetic curriculum, which allow verification of the curriculum design guidelines from literature. Based on the feedback from teaching practices, we find that external educational resources beyond school, hand-on learning experience and scene of daily life are key elements of childhood food education.

Liang Yin, Yudan Shen, Erwu Yi. Integrating Cantonese Culture into Childhood Food Education. Frontiers in Educational Research (2024) Vol. 7, Issue 10: 9-14. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2024.071002.

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