Educational Dimensions of School Lunch: Critical Perspectives

by Suzanne Rice, A.G. Rud

Overview

School lunch is often regarded as a necessary but inconvenient distraction from the real work of education. Lunch, in this view, is about providing students the nourishment they need in order to attend to academic content and the tests that assess whether content has been learned. In contrast, the central purpose of this collection is to examine school lunch as an educational phenomenon in its own right. Contributing authors—drawing from a variety of disciplinary traditions, including philosophy, sociology, and anthropology—examine school lunch policies and practices, social and cultural aspects of food and eating, and the relation among school food, the environment, and human and non-human animal well-being. The volume also addresses how school lunch might be more widely conceptualized and practiced as an educational undertaking.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030102180
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	01/07/2019
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
Pages:	212
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

Suzanne Rice is Professor of Social and Cultural Studies in Education at the University of Kansas, USA.

A.G. Rud is Distinguished Professor of Cultural Studies and Social Thought in Education at Washington State University, USA.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Alice Waters and the Edible Schoolyard: Rethinking School Lunch as Public Education

3. Postmodern Dietetic: Reclaiming the Body Through the Practice of Alimentary Freedom

4. Schooling Lunch: Health, Food, and the Pedagogicalization of the Lunchbox

5. "Eating Democracy": School Lunch and the Social Meaning of Eating in Critical Times

6. Food for a Common(s) Curriculum: Learning to Recognize and Resist Food Enclosures

7. Education Toward an Increasingly Integrated Outlook on Meat

8. "Social Consequences" of School Lunch for Students Who Receive Special Education Services: A Critical Outlook

9. School Lunch and Student Food Insecurity: A Teacher’s Observations and Reflections

10. School Lunch Curriculum.- 11. We Are How We Eat: An Argument for the Social Value of Slow School Lunch

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“This collection pushes a rethinking of fundamental issues in education: how students access food, the cultural meanings of food, the impact of food on learning and the environment. We are in a time where we need reminders of such basics: safe water, protection from precarity, and ethical interaction with all with whom we share the world. This multivalent critical analysis of food helps extend these core conversations.” (Cris Mayo, Director, LGBTQ+ Center, and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, West Virginia University, USA)

“In the search for ways to better support students and enhance educational quality, the role of food and the importance of school lunch programs are often overlooked. This book doubles down on common sense—students who are hungry have difficulty learning—while also pushing educators to think critically about how we address that problem. We must get school food right, and this book provides invaluable guidance.” (Sara Goldrick-Rab, Professor of Higher Education Policy and Sociology, Temple University, USA)