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This chapter focuses on developing food education. Its starting point is the complexity of modern lives and the importance of acknowledging students as active agents in their educational experiences. The text is divided into three sections; each offers a distinct viewpoint on the background and potential of developing food education: the shifting focus of food education, promoting agency through food sense, and creating collaborative food education in Finland. The article leans on the multidisciplinary expertise of the authors in the fields of education, home economics pedagogy, and sociology of food; the first two explore teaching and learning about food and eating, and the third one emphasizes food as a part of culture and identity.
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More information about school food policies in different countries through The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre’s newsletter: https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/news/healthy-school-food-expo-milano-2015.
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Janhonen, K., Mäkelä, J., Palojoki, P. (2016). Food Education: From Normative Models to Promoting Agency. In: Sumner, J. (eds) Learning, Food, and Sustainability. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53904-5_6
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