Jo Pike and Derek Colquhoun
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847428462
- eISBN:
- 9781447307259
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847428462.003.0008
- Subject:
- Social Work, Children and Families
School food has recently become the focus of many international governments' efforts to address ‘the obesity epidemic’ among children and young people. The chapter attends to the issue of school ...
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School food has recently become the focus of many international governments' efforts to address ‘the obesity epidemic’ among children and young people. The chapter attends to the issue of school meals by addressing the ways in which the management of the school site in the UK and the emergent spatial practices within and around school communities have been implicated in the delivery of school food policy objectives, specifically those that aim to produce young people as healthy subjects. It suggests that the management of the school site and its immediate environs have been integral to the way in which school food policy has been enacted at the local level. Drawing on notions of territoriality the chapter discusses the kinds of spatialised strategies and techniques that are deployed in relation to the ‘school boundary’ and the ways in which this boundary is policed to ensure the effectiveness of school meals policy. The chapter focuses in particular on the consequences for those that transgress the school boundary, both the physically and symbolically, with an analysis of the press reaction to the ‘junk food mums’ during a parent/school standoff that became known as ‘The Battle of Rawmarsh’.Less
School food has recently become the focus of many international governments' efforts to address ‘the obesity epidemic’ among children and young people. The chapter attends to the issue of school meals by addressing the ways in which the management of the school site in the UK and the emergent spatial practices within and around school communities have been implicated in the delivery of school food policy objectives, specifically those that aim to produce young people as healthy subjects. It suggests that the management of the school site and its immediate environs have been integral to the way in which school food policy has been enacted at the local level. Drawing on notions of territoriality the chapter discusses the kinds of spatialised strategies and techniques that are deployed in relation to the ‘school boundary’ and the ways in which this boundary is policed to ensure the effectiveness of school meals policy. The chapter focuses in particular on the consequences for those that transgress the school boundary, both the physically and symbolically, with an analysis of the press reaction to the ‘junk food mums’ during a parent/school standoff that became known as ‘The Battle of Rawmarsh’.
Harry Hendrick
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861344779
- eISBN:
- 9781447301721
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861344779.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Comparative and Historical Sociology
This chapter focuses on child welfare during the late 19th century until the early 20th century. The chapter immediately starts off with a discussion of the background of child welfare during this ...
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This chapter focuses on child welfare during the late 19th century until the early 20th century. The chapter immediately starts off with a discussion of the background of child welfare during this period. It then introduces the Child Study Movement, which helped in positioning the social, educational, and psychological importance of understanding the child. Child cruelty and the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) are the main focus of one section, which includes a discussion of the founding of the NSPCC and the passing of the Children's Charter. The chapter also considers the 1885 Criminal Law Amendment Act, which was drafted due to the increase in juvenile prostitution and the selling of British girls. This was followed by the 1908 Punishment of Incest Act, the direct result of a campaign conducted during the early 1890s. Various other programs and laws that were introduced and drafted during this period are discussed, such as the School Meals Service and the Infant Welfare Movement.Less
This chapter focuses on child welfare during the late 19th century until the early 20th century. The chapter immediately starts off with a discussion of the background of child welfare during this period. It then introduces the Child Study Movement, which helped in positioning the social, educational, and psychological importance of understanding the child. Child cruelty and the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) are the main focus of one section, which includes a discussion of the founding of the NSPCC and the passing of the Children's Charter. The chapter also considers the 1885 Criminal Law Amendment Act, which was drafted due to the increase in juvenile prostitution and the selling of British girls. This was followed by the 1908 Punishment of Incest Act, the direct result of a campaign conducted during the early 1890s. Various other programs and laws that were introduced and drafted during this period are discussed, such as the School Meals Service and the Infant Welfare Movement.
Edward William Lane and Jason Thompson
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9789774165603
- eISBN:
- 9781617975516
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
- DOI:
- 10.5743/cairo/9789774165603.003.0005
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Middle Eastern Studies
This chapter examines the hierarchies within families of the upper classes and middle classes, the appellations used for different members of households, different types of servants and slaves and ...
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This chapter examines the hierarchies within families of the upper classes and middle classes, the appellations used for different members of households, different types of servants and slaves and their various duties. It focuses on daily routine and how a typical day is spent, by people of different means and of both the members of the household and those who serve them, looking in particular at meals (mealtimes, what is eaten, how it is eaten, etc.), the drinking of coffee, and the smoking of tobacco. It also touches on gender roles and segregation.Less
This chapter examines the hierarchies within families of the upper classes and middle classes, the appellations used for different members of households, different types of servants and slaves and their various duties. It focuses on daily routine and how a typical day is spent, by people of different means and of both the members of the household and those who serve them, looking in particular at meals (mealtimes, what is eaten, how it is eaten, etc.), the drinking of coffee, and the smoking of tobacco. It also touches on gender roles and segregation.
John David Penniman
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780300222760
- eISBN:
- 9780300228007
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300222760.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
Ancient theories of intellectual formation depended upon corresponding theories of the power of material food to shape both body and mind. These theories show little investment in a stark distinction ...
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Ancient theories of intellectual formation depended upon corresponding theories of the power of material food to shape both body and mind. These theories show little investment in a stark distinction between literal and metaphoric nourishment. This introduction unpacks the dynamic relationship between literal and symbolic food within ancient discussions of human formation. It argues that, in the Greco-Roman world, food was understood to contain an essence that was transferred to the one being fed, transforming them from the inside out. Scholarship on ancient education has often overlooked this crucial emphasis on food and nurturance within the source material and that this has resulted in a false dichotomy between “literal food” and metaphorical references to “food for the soul.” Discussing the ambiguous Greek and Latin vocabulary for food and formation, and engaging post-structural linguistic theory, the introduction concludes that the proper education and formation of children was, throughout antiquity, dependent upon the material provision of food and the ways in which that provision was theorized and regulated.Less
Ancient theories of intellectual formation depended upon corresponding theories of the power of material food to shape both body and mind. These theories show little investment in a stark distinction between literal and metaphoric nourishment. This introduction unpacks the dynamic relationship between literal and symbolic food within ancient discussions of human formation. It argues that, in the Greco-Roman world, food was understood to contain an essence that was transferred to the one being fed, transforming them from the inside out. Scholarship on ancient education has often overlooked this crucial emphasis on food and nurturance within the source material and that this has resulted in a false dichotomy between “literal food” and metaphorical references to “food for the soul.” Discussing the ambiguous Greek and Latin vocabulary for food and formation, and engaging post-structural linguistic theory, the introduction concludes that the proper education and formation of children was, throughout antiquity, dependent upon the material provision of food and the ways in which that provision was theorized and regulated.
John Stewart
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780853236764
- eISBN:
- 9781846312816
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853236764.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter discusses the politics of school meal provision in Scotland, demonstrating how groups hostile to state intervention were able to secure the exclusion of Scotland from the 1906 School ...
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This chapter discusses the politics of school meal provision in Scotland, demonstrating how groups hostile to state intervention were able to secure the exclusion of Scotland from the 1906 School Meals Act. The debate over school meals in Edwardian Scotland emphasises the highly contested link between the child, the family, and the nation-state, which was the very subject matter of child welfare policy. The Edwardian debates over child welfare were affected by socialism. The 1906 Education (Provision of Meals) Act and the 1908 Education (Scotland) Bill are described in detail. The data on the campaign for school meals in Edwardian Scotland generally exhibited a complex series of interrelated and interacting factors. Voluntarism promoted a particular view of the role and purpose of social welfare based on the centrality of individual responsibility.Less
This chapter discusses the politics of school meal provision in Scotland, demonstrating how groups hostile to state intervention were able to secure the exclusion of Scotland from the 1906 School Meals Act. The debate over school meals in Edwardian Scotland emphasises the highly contested link between the child, the family, and the nation-state, which was the very subject matter of child welfare policy. The Edwardian debates over child welfare were affected by socialism. The 1906 Education (Provision of Meals) Act and the 1908 Education (Scotland) Bill are described in detail. The data on the campaign for school meals in Edwardian Scotland generally exhibited a complex series of interrelated and interacting factors. Voluntarism promoted a particular view of the role and purpose of social welfare based on the centrality of individual responsibility.
