Promotion of hygiene habits at school – An adaptation of a project from Classroom Learning to Distance Learning

Authors : Catarina GOUVEİA, Eduarda SİLVA

Pages : 14-23

Doi:10.25233/ijlel.801180

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Publication Date : 2021-06-30

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the challenges it brought to the portuguese education system, there was a need of adapting a research project to be carried out in a school environment. Prior to the conception of the project, a problem was identified in a class of 24 students in 1st grade: a lack of hygiene habits of the students` hands. Therefore, an opportunity to create a project was identified, being its main goal to improve students` hygiene habits, with a focus on hand washing. The project became even more relevant due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the urgent need of proper hand washing habits. Simultaneously, the research project also aimed at creating alerts and warnings at school, related to proper hand hygiene practices. For the data gathering, the main instruments used were an initial and final questionnaire to the students, an interview with the teacher in charge of the class, as well as observation records, based on the students` dialogues and productions. Therefore, this is a research project of a mixed nature insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(qualitative and quantitative);.
Keywords : hygiene, hand washing, distance learning

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