Full Description
This book brings together a unique collection of chapters to facilitate a broad discussion on food education that will stimulate readers to think about key policies, recent research, curriculum positions and how to engage with key stakeholders about the future of food.
Food education has gained much attention because the challenges that influence food availability and eating in schools also extend beyond the school gate. Accordingly, this book establishes evidence-based arguments that recognise the many facets of food education, and reveal how learning through a future's lens and joined-up thinking is critical for shaping intergenerational fairness concerning food futures in education and society. This book is distinctive through its multidisciplinary collection of chapters on food education with a particular focus on the Global North, with case studies from England, Australia, the Republic of Ireland, the United States of America, Canada and Germany. With a focus on three key themes and a rigorous food futures framework, the book is structured into three sections: (i) food education, pedagogy and curriculum, (ii) knowledge and skill diversity associated with food and health learning and (iii) food education inclusivity, culture and agency. Overall, this volume extends and challenges current research and theory in the area of food education and food pedagogy and offers insight and tangible benefits for the future development of food education policies and curricula.
This book will be of great interest to students, scholars, policymakers and education leaders working on food education and pedagogy, food policy, health and diet and the sociology of food.
Contents
PART ONE: OVERVIEW
Introduction: Food futures in education
PART TWO: POLICY, CURRICULUM, AND PEDAGOGY
School mealtime as a pedagogical event
Healthy Lifestyles Project: A practical food programme for primary schools
Food technology as a subject to be taught in secondary schools: A discussion of content, relevance, and pedagogy
Learning from the true school food experts: An ethnographic investigation of middle school students during school lunch
The role of schools in supporting healthy eating in children and young people
Home economics curriculum policy in Ireland: Lessons for policy development
Food Technology and 21st century learning
PART THREE: PSYCHOLOGY OF FOOD
Food waste issues of universal infant free school meals in south-east England schools: A cautionary tale
Belonging, identity, inclusion, and togetherness: The lesser-known social benefits of food for children and young people
Is the ability to cook enough to foster good eating habits in the future? Investigating how schools can empower positive food choices in adolescents
PART FOUR: SOCIOLOGY OF FOOD
Social media platforms and adolescents' nutritional careers: Upcoming development tasks and required literacies
Food poverty and how it affects UK children in the long term
School food lifeworlds: Children's relational experience of school food and its importance in their early primary school years
'I like it when I can sit with my best friends': Exploration of children's agency to achieve commensality in school mealtimes
Friends, not food: How inclusive is education for young vegans in Scotland?
Food pathways to community success
A renewed pedagogy for health co-benefit: Combining nutrition and sustainability education in school food learnings and practices
Exploring intersectional feminist food pedagogies through the Recipe Exchange Project
PART FIVE: CONCLUSION
Conclusion: Food futures in education
