School Food, Equity and Social Justice provides contemporary, critical examinations of policies and practices relating to food in schools across 25 countries.
The book is divided into three sections, Food politics and policies, Sustainability and development, and Teaching and learning about food, and critiques school food interventions and programs from the perspective of equity and social justice. 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.
This book offers enhanced insight into matters of social justice in school in diverse contexts, and visions of how greater equality and equity may be achieved through school food policy and in school food programs. It will be essential reading for students, researchers and policy makers in health education, health promotion, educational practice and policy, public health, nutrition and social justice education.