Educational Dimensions of School Lunch

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

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.

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.