School lunches: children's services or children's spaces?

Daniel, Paul; Gustafsson, Ulla

doi:10.1080/14733285.2010.494865

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“…Food choice, queuing and the social aspects of lunchtime such as eating with friends were major influencing factors. The social and environmental aspects of dining have become a focus of recent academic research (18)(19)(20) , suggesting that nutritional concerns have preoccupied policy makers at the expense of children and young people's priorities for school dining. Changes to the temporal and spatial organisation of school dining should be considered to maximise uptake (8) .…”

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Factors influencing take-up of free school meals in primary- and secondary-school children in England

Sahota

Woodward

Molinari³

et al. 2013

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: The present study sought to explore the factors that influence registration for free school meals and the subsequent take-up following registration in England. Design: The research design consisted of two phases, a qualitative research phase followed by an intervention phase. Findings are presented from the qualitative research phase, which comprised interviews with head teachers, school administrators, parents and focus groups with pupils. Setting: The study took place in four primary schools and four secondary schools in Leeds, UK. Subjects: Participants included head teachers, school administrators, parents and pupils. Results: Findings suggested that parents felt the registration process to be relatively straightforward although many secondary schools were not proactive in promoting free school meals. Quality and choice of food were regarded by both pupils and parents as significant in determining school meal choices, with stigma being less of an issue than originally anticipated. Conclusions: Schools should develop proactive approaches to promoting free school meals and attention should be given not only to the quality and availability of food, but also to the social, cultural and environmental aspects of dining. Processes to maintain pupils' anonymity should be considered to allay parents' fear of stigma.

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Factors influencing take-up of free school meals in primary- and secondary-school children in England

Sahota

Woodward

Molinari³

et al. 2013

Public Health Nutr.

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“…The focus of such articles includes the politicised school initiatives of enforcing government healthy eating (Karrebaek, 2012), the pervasiveness of brands in teens' lunchboxes (Roper and La Niece, 2009) and the practice of eating lunchbox food at school (Daniel and Gustafsson, 2010). Although these studies provide useful insights into the complexity of discourses and practices surrounding the preparation and consumption of lunchboxes, we are left with little understanding of mothers' everyday experiences of preparing lunchboxes for their children.…”

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“…Daniel and Gustafsson (2010: 265) evaluated the changes to school meals in three London primary schools and argue that 'healthy eating' initiatives have neglected 'the social significance of lunchtimes as "children's spaces" within the adult controlled school day'. Schools have therefore been criticised for focusing on what children put in their mouths at the expense of creating a pleasurable social context where food is consumed (Daniel and Gustafsson, 2010). Relevant factors include where children eat, the time they have to eat, who they are eating with and the choice they have over this (e.g.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Given that government health campaigns on healthy eating are partly administered through the school and its staff (see Daniel and Gustafsson, 2010), 'the school' was an important potential audience within mothers' narratives. The school through which research participants were recruited had rules concerning what should not be included in lunchboxes, including fizzy drinks, solid chocolate, sweets and nuts.…”

Section: Negotiating Home Food In Schoolmentioning

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Mothers on Display: Lunchboxes, Social Class and Moral Accountability

Harman

Cappellini

2015

Sociology

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This article explores middle class mothers' narratives on their daily routines of preparing lunchboxes for their children. In this study lunchboxes are understood as an artefact linking together discourses and practices of doing and displaying mothering, media and government discourses of feeding children and broader issues of care and surveillance in private and public settings. Drawing on semi-structured, photo elicitation interviews and a focus group discussion, this article illuminates how mothers feel on display through the contents of their children's lunchboxes.

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“…The emphasis on lunchtime management and the promotion of healthy eating often outweighs the emphasis on lunchtime as a social event (Pike 2008, Daniel andGustafsson 2010). These negative aspects of dining hall ambience can undermine well-intentioned nutritional/health policies, not least of all by discouraging the uptake of free school meals (Pike and Colquhoun 2009).…”

Section: Social Ecology and Health Improvement Policymentioning

confidence: 95%

Health improvement, nutrition-related behaviour and the role of school meals: the usefulness of a socio-ecological perspective to inform policy design, implementation and evaluation

Moore

Murphy

Moore

2011

Critical Public Health

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Schools have the potential to support children's learning of nutritionrelated behaviours through their experiences with school food. The transformation of school meal programmes have featured within policies in the UK and the USA. However, such policies are at risk of not meeting their objectives as many children remain unwilling to consume healthier food. Socio-ecological health improvement frameworks emphasise the importance of assessing health needs and designing/evaluating policies by considering processes operating at policy, community, organisational and inter/intra-personal levels. This article explores the usefulness of the socioecological perspective as: a theoretical framework to assess health policy and needs; a methodological framework to inform the design of associated research; and an evaluative framework for policy implementations. This is achieved by demonstrating how a socio-ecological perspective was deployed during an exploratory study into the role of primary school dining halls in improving children's nutrition-related behaviour. This study revealed how policies at local and school levels reflected national objectives with respect to nutritional guidelines, but were also influenced by multiple, competing interests at other socio-ecological levels. These included pupils' food preferences; organisational objectives such as protecting school meal uptake; and the practices of school meal staff. It is argued that higher level policy interventions may have limited effectiveness if undermined by lack of attention to lower level factors. The use of socio-ecological frameworks as theoretical, methodological and evaluative tools to support a consistent, holistic approach during the design, implementation and evaluation of health improvement policies is recommended.

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School lunches: children's services or children's spaces?

Cited by 60 publications

References 4 publications

Factors influencing take-up of free school meals in primary- and secondary-school children in England

Factors influencing take-up of free school meals in primary- and secondary-school children in England

Mothers on Display: Lunchboxes, Social Class and Moral Accountability

Health improvement, nutrition-related behaviour and the role of school meals: the usefulness of a socio-ecological perspective to inform policy design, implementation and evaluation

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