Cross Cutting Issues in Education (Unit 4)

The other cross cutting issues in education which closely interlinked to education is about food and nutrition. It is commonly understood that good nutrition during childhood is important for healthy growth and development. In addition to affecting physical growth and maturation, a child’s nutritional status can also influences a number of factors that are central to the child’s educational achievements – good health and nutrition increase the child’s attention span, its learning capacity, and its ability to fully engage in educational experiences. Furthermore, good health and nutritional status also believed to be enhance school enrolment, attendance and retention. Therefore, this unit deeply discusses about this hot issue.

This Video is prepared by Mahmud Reshad as a supplementary material for the course Cross Cutting Issues in Education.