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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. ** Review “This collection pushes a rethinking of fundamental issues in education: how students access food, the cultural meanings of food, the impact of food on learning and the environment. We are in a time where we need reminders of such basics: safe water, protection from precarity, and ethical interaction with all with whom we share the world. This m

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Author

Rice, Suzanne (author);Rud, A. G. (author)

Publisher

Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9783319725178

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Medical, Education