Children's Food Practices in Families and Institutions
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2011
Language: eng
Number of pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9780415594554
Subjects: Children, nutrition; Food habits
Description: "This book 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. It reveals that food works not only on a material level as sustenance but also on a symbolic level as something that can stand for thoughts, feelings, and relationships. The three broad contexts of schools, families and care (residential homes and foster care) are explored to show the ways in which both children and adults use food. Food is used as a means by which adults care for children and is also something through which adults manage their own feelings and relationships to each other which in turn impact on children's experiences"--P. [i]