TY  - BOOK
AU  - Don Sanderson
PY  - 2026
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1058-1634
SN  - 9783034365796
TI  - Feeding Education’s Future
T2  - A Critical Examination of Food in Schools
DO  - 10.3726/b23681
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1742816
N2  - Food is a largely invisible element of educational practice. It sustains cognition and wellbeing yet remains largely absent from educational theory and policy. At a time of heightened concern about student achievement, child health, and social inequalities, this book examines how food operates within the hidden curriculum of schooling. Using a critical sociological lens, it traces how everyday routines, policies, and foodway practices transmit tacit lessons about values, belonging, and compliance. In doing so, it explores the political and economic forces shaping school food practices and the tensions they generate between educational, health, and commercial priorities. By reframing food as part of the educational infrastructure itself, the book opens new ways of thinking about its pedagogical, social, and ethical significance.
KW  - school food, hidden curriculum, food systems, education policy, public health, wellbeing, social inequality, institutional practice, political economy, food governance
LA  - English
ER  -