TY - JOUR
T1 - Schooling food in contemporary times: taking stock
AU - Leahy, Deana
AU - Gray, Emily Margaret
AU - Cutter-Mackenzie, Amy Nicole
AU - Eames, Chris
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Over the past decade we have witnessed a proliferation and intensification of food pedagogies across a range of sites. This article begins by considering two pedagogical scenes that attempt to address food. They were enacted within educational settings in Australia; one a Year 8 (13 years of age) health education classroom, the other a professional learning seminar. Each were heavily imbued with the obesity prevention imperatives that have come to characterise social, political and educational discourse around food in contemporary times. Using these scenes as a springboard, we move to consider the place where we initially envisioned food might intersect with environmental education. We imagined that it would be a space with significant potential for approaching teaching and learning about food in new ways. Deploying menu as metaphor, the authors explore the possibilities for this new terrain and argue that bringing a Foucauldian inspired ethics of discomfort to the table might help us take stock of contemporary approaches and their effects. Given the dominance of crisisdriven responses that tend to characterise school food education, we conclude by suggesting that we need to interrupt the dominant discourses that circulate around food and try to engage with some new possibilities for teaching and learning about food.
AB - Over the past decade we have witnessed a proliferation and intensification of food pedagogies across a range of sites. This article begins by considering two pedagogical scenes that attempt to address food. They were enacted within educational settings in Australia; one a Year 8 (13 years of age) health education classroom, the other a professional learning seminar. Each were heavily imbued with the obesity prevention imperatives that have come to characterise social, political and educational discourse around food in contemporary times. Using these scenes as a springboard, we move to consider the place where we initially envisioned food might intersect with environmental education. We imagined that it would be a space with significant potential for approaching teaching and learning about food in new ways. Deploying menu as metaphor, the authors explore the possibilities for this new terrain and argue that bringing a Foucauldian inspired ethics of discomfort to the table might help us take stock of contemporary approaches and their effects. Given the dominance of crisisdriven responses that tend to characterise school food education, we conclude by suggesting that we need to interrupt the dominant discourses that circulate around food and try to engage with some new possibilities for teaching and learning about food.
UR - http://goo.gl/cX6uzw
U2 - 10.1017/aee.2015.26
DO - 10.1017/aee.2015.26
M3 - Article
SN - 0814-0626
VL - 31
SP - 1
EP - 11
JO - Australian Journal of Environmental Education
JF - Australian Journal of Environmental Education
IS - 1
ER -