Educational Dimensions of School Lunch

A. G. Rud

ISBN 10: 3030102181 / ISBN 13: 9783030102180

Published by Springer International Publishing, Springer International Publishing Jan 2019, 2019

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Neuware -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.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 232 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Educational Dimensions of School Lunch
• Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Springer International Publishing Jan 2019
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3030102181
• ISBN 13: 9783030102180
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu

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Synopsis

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. 

About the Author

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.