The use of the term food literacy has emerged in an attempt to encapsulate the range of
activities associated with eating food. Eating as a daily activity requires numerous thought …

Objective: The ability of schools, school leaders and teachers to promote critical health
literacy in teaching and learning is central to the development of health literacy in schools …

Family and consumer sciences (FCS) professionals in home economics and allied fields
have a long history of fostering increased knowledge and skills related to food; in recent …

In line with the Fifth Transformative Consumer Research Conference held at Villanova
University, USA, in 2015, we chaired a dialogical track that involved seven international …

This chapter describes food literacy in an educational context by firstly reviewing current
definitions and how they apply in an educational setting. The Food Literacy Measure and …

Teachers' self-confidence plays an important role in the successful delivery of school food
and nutrition education. Their opinions of ways of improving their teaching confidence …

Food literacy education is a potential public health strategy to support adolescents to have
healthy dietary behaviours. In most high schools in Australia home economics teachers are …

This paper will consider ways in which students are constructed as aliens in health
classrooms. Creating the classroom as a setting for health promotion requires closer …

Sustainable food education seeks to improve learners' food behaviors across diverse
sustainable development areas. Yet research of sustainable education methods remains …

When professionals engage in and with their professional practice they assert a claim of
extraordinary knowledge. Within Home Economics such a claim is a challenge when …