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School Food Politics
The Complex Ecology of Hunger and Feeding in Schools Around the World- With a Foreword by Chef Ann Cooper
Series:
Sarah A. Robert and Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower
This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2012.
The essays in School Food Politics explore the intersections of food and politics on all six of the inhabited continents of the world. Including electoral fights over universally free school meals in Korea, nutritional reforms to school dinners in England and canteens in Australia, teachers’ and doctors’ work on school feeding in Argentina, and more, the volume provides key illustrations of the many contexts that have witnessed intense struggles defining which children will eat; why; what and how they are served; and who will pay for and prepare the food. Contributors include reformers writing from their own perspectives, from the farm-to-school program in Burlington, Vermont, to efforts to apply principles of critical pedagogy in cooking programs for urban teens, to animal rights curriculum. Later chapters shift their focus to possibilities and hope for a different future for school food, one that is friendlier to students, «lunch ladies,» society, other creatures, and the planet.
The essays in School Food Politics explore the intersections of food and politics on all six of the inhabited continents of the world. Including electoral fights over universally free school meals in Korea, nutritional reforms to school dinners in England and canteens in Australia, teachers’ and doctors’ work on school feeding in Argentina, and more, the volume provides key illustrations of the many contexts that have witnessed intense struggles defining which children will eat; why; what and how they are served; and who will pay for and prepare the food. Contributors include reformers writing from their own perspectives, from the farm-to-school program in Burlington, Vermont, to efforts to apply principles of critical pedagogy in cooking programs for urban teens, to animal rights curriculum. Later chapters shift their focus to possibilities and hope for a different future for school food, one that is friendlier to students, «lunch ladies,» society, other creatures, and the planet.
Contents: Chef Ann Cooper: Foreword – Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower/Sarah A. Robert: Introduction: School Food Politics – Jen
Sandler: Reframing the Politics of Urban Feeding in U.S. Public Schools: Parents, Programs, Activists, and the State – Marcus
B. Weaver-Hightower: Fixing Up Lunch Ladies, Dinner Ladies, and Canteen Managers: Cases of School Food Reform in England,
the United States, and Australia – Kristin D. Phillips/Daniel Roberts: Cultivating Schools for Rural Development: Labor, Learning,
and the Challenge of Food Sovereignty in Tanzania – Sarah A. Robert/Irina Kovalskys: Defining the «Problem» with School Food
Policy in Argentina – Mi Ok Kang: Free for All, Organic School Lunch Programs in South Korea – Marion Nestle: School Food,
Public Policy, and Strategies for Change – Catherine Lalonde: Food Prep 101: Low-Income Teens of Color Cooking Food and Analyzing
Media – Doug Davis/Dana Hudson/Members of the Burlington School Food Project: Going Local: Burlington, Vermont’s Farm-to-School
Program – Abraham DeLeon: What’s That Non-Human Doing on Your Lunch Tray? Disciplinary Spaces, School Cafeterias, and Possibilities
of Resistance – Sarah A. Robert/Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower: Coda: Healthier Horizons.