Food Policy and Practice in Early Childhood Education and Care

This book is about food and feeding in early childhood education and care, offering an exploration of the intersection of children's food, education, family intervention, and public health policies.

Autorentext

Francesca Vaghi is an anthropologist and childhood studies scholar. She holds a PhD in anthropology and sociology from SOAS, University of London, and is currently a Research Associate at the School of Social Work & Social Policy at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland. Francesca's work seeks to advance critical approaches in public health, specifically looking at how dominant policy discourses (re)create and seek to address 'problems' that have implications for working class and ethnic minority families, particularly in matters related to food insecurity, childhood poverty, and childcare policy.

Inhalt

Introduction

Chapter 1. Rethinking responsibility? The state in children's everyday lives

Chapter 3. The food industry and its contradictions

Chapter 4. Feeding children in a childcare setting

Chapter 5. Children's eating practices in childcare

Chapter 6. Food and parenting in the mixed economy of welfare

Chapter 7. Mothers and foodwork

Conclusion