Contrasting approaches to food education and school meals

Sidse Schoubye Andersen; Charlotte Baarts; Lotte Holm

doi:10.1080/15528014.2017.1357948

Contrasting approaches to food education and school meals

Sidse Schoubye Andersen, Charlotte Baarts, Lotte Holm

Section for Consumption, Bioethics and Governance

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Abstract

This study builds on a fieldwork in a Danish school class, where pupils were observed while preparing and eating school meals. It shows that the children encounter conflicting approaches to food education depending on the context. While eating, an authoritarian approach to food education dominates and food is ascribed instrumental value. While preparing the school meal, a democratic approach dominates and food is ascribed intrinsic value. The aim is to show how these conflicting approaches reflect not only different social and cultural expectations to eating and preparing meals, respectively, but also a conflict between food educational ideals and actual school meal practices. To illustrate this an analytic model is introduced, the Integrated Food Pedagogy Model, and the ways in which this model could help promote better food education among schoolchildren are discussed.

Original language	English
Journal	Food, Culture and Society
Volume	20
Issue number	4
Pages (from-to)	609-629
Number of pages	21
ISSN	1552-8014
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2017.1357948
Publication status	Published - 2 Oct 2017

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