1st Edition

Schools, Space and Culinary Capital

By Gurpinder Singh Lalli Copyright 2023
128 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

128 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

128 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book introduces the notion of culinary capital to investigate socialisation and school mealtime experiences in an academy school based in the UK. Drawing on interviews collated from children, teachers and staff within the school, the text sheds light on food insecurity in society and schools as being major issue in educational policy. The book examines schools as a microcosm for society... Read more

1. Introduction

2. A review of the English school meal

3. School foodscapes

4. Schooling food and children’s voice

5. The school meal and culinary capital

6. Afterword

Biography

Gurpinder Singh Lalli is Reader in Education for Social Justice and Inclusion and a member of the Education Observatory, based in the School of Education at University of Wolverhampton.