Main 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 futures' 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 (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
Gurpinder Singh Lalli, Angela Turner and Marion Rutland
PART TWO: POLICY, CURRICULUM, AND PEDAGOGY

School mealtime as a pedagogical event
Kristiina Janhonen and Gurpinder Singh Lalli

Healthy Lifestyles Project: A food programme for primary schools
Suzanne Gomersall

Food technology as a subject to be taught in secondary schools - a discussion of content, relevance, and pedagogy
Hilda Ruth Beaumont

Learning from the True School Food Experts: An Ethnographic Investigation of Middle School Students During School Lunch
Emily Elenio and Morgan Hoke

The role of educational spaces for supporting healthy eating in children and young people
Marie Murphy and Miranda Pallan

Learning from Food Education in Home Economics Policy in Ireland
Amanda McCloat and Martin Caraher

Food Technology and 21st century learning
Deborah Trevallion

PART THREE: PSYCHOLOGY OF FOOD

Food waste issues of universal infant free school meals in south-east England schools: A cautionary tale
Mark Stein, Vale Penny Beauchamp, Yiannis Polychronakis

Belonging, Identity, Inclusion, and Togetherness: the lesser-known nutritional benefits of food for children and adolescence

Kelly-Ann Allen, Deana Leahy, Lefteris Patlamazoglou, Clarrie Bristow, Caomhan McGlinchey, Christopher Boyle

Is the ability to cook enough to foster good eating habits in the future? Investigating key influences that impact adolescent food choices

Donna Owen
PART FOUR: SOCIOLOGY OF FOOD

Dealing with divergent food futures on social media platforms: on the significant role of food and media literacy among adolescent users

Tina Bartelme

Food Poverty and in how it affects children's educational attainment

Ruth Seabrook and Marion Rutland

School food lifeworlds: Children's relational experience of school food and its importance in their early primary school years

Marianne O'Kane Boal

Rethinking children's spatial agency during school mealtime interactions

Samantha Stone and Kyoko Murakami

Food pathways to community success

Lynda Korimboccus

Food pathways to community success

Rounaq Nayak

Health co-benefits pedagogy in school food environments: Tapping on the synergy between nutritious and environmentally friendly food consumption

Neha Lalchandani, Danielle Proud and Suzanne Suggs

Exploring Intersectional Feminist Food Pedagogies through the Recipe Exchange Project

Barbara Parker
PART FIVE: CONCLUSION

Conclusion: Food futures in education and society

Angela Turner, Marion Rutland and Gurpinder Singh Lalli