Development of Dietary and Clothing Life Convergence Program for ‘Education for Sustainable Development(ESD)’

This study aims to develop an educational program combining dietary and clothing life from the perspective of education for sustainable development(ESD) to enhance elementary school preservice teachers' awareness and academic capabilities for education for sustainable development.Preservice elementary school teachers 29 were surveyed on the degree of awareness of terms related to sustainable development.The relationship between the dietary and clothing life achievement standards of the 2022 practical arts education curriculum and the components of ESD was analyzed.Based on previous studies and the core concepts of the 2022 practical arts education curriculum, after extracting and organizing the areas for convergence of dietary and clothing life and educational topics for the areas, the process of developing content elements and practical materials for each topic was conducted.The results of this study are as follows.Elementary school pre-service teachers have a low awareness of ESD among the terms related to sustainable development, so education on this is necessary.It was analyzed that 19 out of 23 components of ESD can be linked to the dietary and clothing life achievement standards of the 2022 practical arts of education curriculum.Environment, health, and consideration were selected as areas that can combine dietary and clothing life, and educational topics for each area were restructured based on achievement standards.The program's first week was outlined to ESD, and afterwards, dietary and clothing life were grouped into three sets of environment, 1 set of health, and two sets of consideration.The last class was organized to integrate environment, health, and consideration, and 14 weeks of the program were developed.