School Lunch as an Educational Phenomenon

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

The purpose of this symposium is to examine school lunch as an educational phenomenon. We address how aspects of school lunch affect the overall well-being of those whose lives are affected—directly or indirectly--with this pervasive aspect of schooling. Any new global order worth building is one that is sustainable. With a population of nearly 8 billion, food and the processes involved in its production and consumption, raises profound educational challenges in respect to sustainability.

--Each presentation considers school lunch as an educational phenomenon, whether problematizing aspects of current practices or framing alternatives to these practices (or both).

--Each presentation is both theoretical and practical, offering theoretically informed considerations for practice and/or policy.

--Each presentation highlights ethical and environmental dimensions of school lunch, illustrating that what students eat at school is not merely a matter of “individual preference,” but has implications for other beings and for the planet as a whole.

Sub Track

• Other Disciplinary Areas

Individual Presentations

• Ethics, Schooling, and the Food Regimes of the Animal-Industrial Complex - Alison Happel-Parkins, University of Memphis; John Lupinacci, Washington State University

• We are What We Eat at School: Theorizing a School Lunch Curriculum - Shannon Gleason, University of Connecticut; AG Rud, Washington State University

• Alice Waters and the Edible Schoolyard: Educational Matters - Susan Laird, University of Oklahoma

• Education Toward an Increasingly Integrated Outlook on Meat - Suzanne Rice, University of Kansas