School Food, Equity and Social Justice

School Food, Equity and Social Justice provides contemporary, critical examinations of policies and practices relating to food in schools across 25 countries from an equity and social justice perspective.
The book is divided into three sections: Food politics and policies; Sustainability and development; and, Teaching and learning about food. Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of academics with practitioner backgrounds, the chapters in this collection broaden discussions on school food to consider its educational and environmental implications, the ideals of food in schools, the emotional and ideological components of schooling food, and the relationships with home and everyday life.
Our aim is to provide enhanced insight into matters of social justice in diverse contexts, and visions of how greater equality and equity may be achieved through school food policy and in school food programs. We expect this book to become essential reading for students, researchers and policy makers in health education, health promotion, educational practice and policy, public health, nutrition and social justice education.

Dorte Ruge, PhD, Associate Professor, UCL University College, Department of Education and Social Science, Denmark. Irene Torres, PhD, Technical Director, Fundacion Octaedro, Quito, Ecuador. Darren Powell, PhD, senior lecturer, Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Auckland.

1.International perspectives on school food: A matter of equity and social justice Section 1. Food politics and policies 2. School food approaches in Peru, Colombia and Ecuador: Intentions, illusions and uncertainties 3. School foodscapes in Greenland and Denmark - critical perspectives 4. There's no such thing as a free lunch: Food, schools, and philanthropy in New Zealand 5. The 'sweet bun law' and the politics of school food in Poland 6. Experiencing school food policy and practice: Learning from eleven-year-old girls in a working class community in Ireland 7. The national School Food Program in the interpretation of Brazilian managers Section 2. Sustainability and development 8. School meals in Norway - current status and a way forward? 9. Sustainable school feeding programs: The experience in Latin America and Caribbean countries 10. School food and the promotion of a more just and equitable food system in South Africa 11. Avoiding the child poverty curse in Ghana and South Africa: Is school food as a social protection tool sufficient? Section 3: Teaching and learning about food 12. Japanese school lunch and food education 13. Is the Indian school food environment healthy? A review, 14. Noticing and rupturing settler-colonial logics with fooding pedagogies: Thinking with children-food relations and more-than-human worlds, 15. Exploring the idea of school meals as an element of educating for viable futures 16. Our visions for school food