Children's Food Practices in Families and Institutions

ISBN-13: 9780415632263 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 98 str.

Punch; Ian McIntosh; Ruth Emond

Opis

This title explores the power and significance of food and food practices within people's daily lives at home, in care and at school. It brings together recent UK studies into children's experiences and practices around food in a range of contexts, linking these to current policy and practice perspectives.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Children’s food practices in families and institutions  Samantha Punch, Ian McIntosh and Ruth Emond  Children, Food and Institutions  2. Food and its meaning for asylum seeking children and young people in foster care  Ravi K.S. Kohli, Helen Connolly and Andrea Warman  3. Children and food practices in residential care: ambivalence in the ‘institutional’ home  Nika Dorrer, Ian McIntosh, Samantha Punch and Ruth Emond  4. Discussant piece: Linking, bridging and bonding: the importance of a psycho-social perspective for Children in Public Care  Jonathan Stanley  Children, Food and Schools  5. School lunches: children’s services or children’s spaces?  Paul Daniel and Ulla Gustafsson  6. ‘I don’t have to listen to you! You’re just a dinner lady!’: power and resistance at lunchtimes in primary schools  Jo Pike  7. Discussant piece: Food and schools  Ian McIntosh, Ruth Emond and Samantha Punch  Children, Food and Families  8. Children’s snacking, children’s food: food moralities and family life  Penny Curtis, Allison James and Katie Ellis  9. Food and family practices: teenagers, eating and domestic life in differing socio-economic circumstances  Kathryn Backett-Milburn, Wendy Wills, Mei-Li Roberts and Julia Lawton  10. Discussant piece: How parenting education and family learning can be set within a tiered intervention framework to aid the development of health eating practices  Catriona Rioch

O autorze

Samantha Punch is a senior lecturer in Sociology in the Department of Applied Social Science at Stirling University. Her research interests include rural livelihoods in China, Vietnam and India, youth transitions and migration in Bolivia, children’s sibling relationships and birth order. Her recent publications include Global Perspectives on Rural Childhood and Youth: Young Rural Lives (2007), Get Set for Sociology (with McIntosh, Edinburgh University Press: 2005) and Sociology: Making Sense of Society (with Marsh, Keating, Harden, Pearson: 2009).

Ian McIntosh is a senior lecturer in Sociology in the Department of Applied Social Science at Stirling University. His research interests include, attitudes to begging, national identities and belonging. Recent publications include Get Set for Sociology (with Punch, Edinburgh University Press: 2005) and English People in Scotland: an Invisisble Minority (with Robertson and Sim, Edwin Mellen Press: Lampeter: 2008).

Ruth Emond is a part time senior lecturer in Social Work in the Department of Applied Social Science at the University of Stirling. She has conducted research in a range of areas relating to vulnerable children and young people,particularly those in institutional care. She works part time as a social worker and play therapist at The Family Change Project in Perth, Scotland where she supports children and young people who have experienced complex trauma.