Green Technology Awareness on Food Processing Among Students of Prospective Agricultural Vocational Teachers
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- 10.2991/assehr.k.220305.045How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- students awareness; green technology on food processing; prospective agricultural vocational teachers
- Abstract
Current trend in food sector is the adoption of green technologies to realize towards a sustainable society and greener economy. Agricultural vocational teachers who prepare students to work in food industry need to master green technology on food processing. This study aimed to identify students’ awareness and learning-need as prospective teacher of agricultural vocational school regarding green technology in food processing. A total of 107 students of prospective agricultural vocational teacher participated in the survey. Students fill out a questionnaire of green technology on food processing with 8 items measuring awareness of green technology terms. Descriptive statistics was used to analyze the data. The results showed that most students lack awareness of the terms and central issues, such as life cycle assessment, carbon footprint, non-thermal food processing, waste management hierarchy as well as green technology itself. Students stated that they were most familiar with the term of green packaging. As many as 78.5% of respondents stated the need for prospective agricultural vocational teachers to learn green technology on food processing. This finding implies the importance of green technology on food processing to be integrated into the curriculum of agricultural vocational high school teachers’ education.
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TY - CONF AU - Muhammad Oka Ramadhan AU - Mustika Nuramalia Handayani PY - 2022 DA - 2022/03/30 TI - Green Technology Awareness on Food Processing Among Students of Prospective Agricultural Vocational Teachers BT - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Innovation in Engineering and Vocational Education (ICIEVE 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 218 EP - 222 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220305.045 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.220305.045 ID - Ramadhan2022 ER -