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

Year 2021, Volume: 7 Issue: 1, 14 - 23, 30.06.2021

Catarina Gouveia Eduarda Silva

https://doi.org/10.25233/ijlel.801180

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 (qualitative and quantitative).

Keywords

hygiene, hand washing, distance learning

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