Educational Dimensions of School Lunch Critical Perspectives
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
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School Lunch
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Critical Perspectives
Edited by Suzanne Rice and A. G. Rud
Educational Dimensions of School Lunch
Suzanne Rice • A. G. Rud Editors
Educational Dimensions of School Lunch Critical Perspectives
Editors Suzanne Rice University of Kansas Lawrence, KS, USA
A. G. Rud Washington State University Pullman, WA, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-72516-1 ISBN 978-3-319-72517-8 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72517-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017962969 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: © Sam Stephenson / Alamy Stock Photo Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Dedicated to the memory of Matthew T. Lewis
Foreword
It stuns me sometimes to think about how central school feeding has become in worldwide politics and civic discussion, both in and out of the educational sphere. I have marveled to see widespread, often viral attention in the United States to issues like “pink slime,” “pizza as a vegetable,” and “lunch shaming.” It seems nearly everyone is talking school lunch. A decade ago, when I began studying school food in earnest, there were a small but growing number of scholars—in educational research and in other fields like sociology (Poppendieck 2010) and history (Levine 2008)—and a growing number of teachers, administrators, school nutrition professionals, parents and concerned citizens who already took school food seriously. Yet that number has grown exponentially over the past two decades, spurred by exposés and documentaries like Fast Food Nation (Schlosser 2001), The Omnivore’s Dilemma (Pollan 2006), Food, Inc. (Kenner 2008
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