School mealtime research in England has been preoccupied with the nutritional composition
of a meal in relation to children's bodies and health education. Underlying these concerns is …

School mealtimes in England are highly orchestrated practices that have a specific temporal
order of when and how the meal should be eaten. At the same time, the social conditions of …

Mealtimes and their associated rituals are recognised as important aspects of human
socialisation; however, much of the research about mealtimes in early childhood education …

This expository article addresses a lacuna in policy and practice literature around using
primary school lunches as both a pedagogical opportunity and a space to expose children to …

This paper discusses how child resistance is lived on a daily basis through the construction
and operation of mealtime rules in four Australian families with young children. It focuses on …

Over the last decade the school setting has emerged as a crucial site for the promotion and
maintenance of children and young people's health. Issues relating to the types of foods …

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, the paper draws on conceptions of culinary capital and
socialisation to explore children's experiences of mealtime in one academy school. In this …

This paper discusses mealtime in Danish kindergartens as sites for contested
understandings of food, bodies, and care, in an everyday life perspective. Two contesting …

The question of what children eat at school, and how they eat, has attracted increasing
attention in the United Kingdom in recent years, and this interest has intensified recently with …

The majority of Australian preschool aged children attend Early Childhood Education and
Care (ECEC) services, and mealtimes are a feature of every child's day at ECEC. However …