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Educational Dimensions of School Lunch

Critical Perspectives

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Editors:
  1. Suzanne Rice

    1. University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA

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  2. A.G. Rud

    1. Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA

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  • Provides an overview of significant philosophical understandings of food and eating from the ancient to the postmodern

  • Critiques two aspects of school lunch, food provided at school and the pressures on students who bring home-prepared or store bought lunches thought by school personnel to be inappropriate

  • Argues that there is a need for curricula explicitly addressing the food students eat at school-where it comes from, how it is produced, processed, and distributed, as well as its nutrition, cultural dimensions, and bearing on environmental concerns

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction

    • Suzanne Rice, A. G. Rud
    Pages 1-10

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

    • Susan Laird
    Pages 11-33

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

    • Matthew T. Lewis
    Pages 35-57

  5. Schooling Lunch: Health, Food, and the Pedagogicalization of the Lunch Box

    • Carolyn Pluim, Darren Powell, Deana Leahy
    Pages 59-74

  6. “Eating Democracy”: School Lunch and the Social Meaning of Eating in Critical Times

    • Paula M. Salvio
    Pages 75-89

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

    • John J. Lupinacci, Alison Happel-Parkins
    Pages 91-115

  8. Education Toward an Increasingly Integrated Outlook on Meat

    • Suzanne Rice
    Pages 117-134

  9. “Social Consequences” of School Lunch for Students Who Receive Special Education Services: A Critical Outlook

    • Susan M. Bashinski, Kipton D. Smilie
    Pages 135-155

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

    • Sarah Riggs Stapleton, Person Cole
    Pages 157-171

  11. School Lunch Curriculum

    • A. G. Rud, Shannon Gleason
    Pages 173-187

  12. We Are How We Eat: An Argument for the Social Value of Slow School Lunch

    • Jennifer C. Ng
    Pages 189-202

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 203-212
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About this book

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. 

Reviews

“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)

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA

    Suzanne Rice

  • Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA

    A.G. Rud

About the editors

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.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Educational Dimensions of School Lunch

  • Book Subtitle: Critical Perspectives

  • Editors: Suzanne Rice, A.G. Rud

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72517-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-72516-1Published: 15 March 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10218-0Published: 08 January 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-72517-8Published: 06 March 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 212

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Educational Philosophy, Early Childhood Education, Clinical Nutrition

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