TY - JOUR
T1 - Food for Kindergarten Children: Who Cares?
T2 - Relations between Food and Care in Everyday Kindergarten Mealtime
AU - Hansen, Stine Rosenlund
AU - Kristensen, Niels Heine
PY - 2017/7/3
Y1 - 2017/7/3
N2 - This paper discusses mealtime in Danish kindergartens as sites for contested understandings of food, bodies, and care, in an everyday life perspective. Two contesting perspectives on the daily meals are presented, one that highlights the bodily experience of eating, and one that emphasizes the relations between food and health. The coexistence of these perspectives causes tensions in the everyday meals, and in the relations between children and adults. It is argued that adults often downplay the meaning of children’s bodily experiences of eating on behalf of a more rational approach to eating that seeks to construct healthy bodies. The paper builds on empirical material produced in the period from early spring 2011 to winter 2013 as part of a doctoral research project. The production of empirical material took place in three Danish kindergartens through a combination of several qualitative methods, among others participant observation, interviews and creative activities with children.
AB - This paper discusses mealtime in Danish kindergartens as sites for contested understandings of food, bodies, and care, in an everyday life perspective. Two contesting perspectives on the daily meals are presented, one that highlights the bodily experience of eating, and one that emphasizes the relations between food and health. The coexistence of these perspectives causes tensions in the everyday meals, and in the relations between children and adults. It is argued that adults often downplay the meaning of children’s bodily experiences of eating on behalf of a more rational approach to eating that seeks to construct healthy bodies. The paper builds on empirical material produced in the period from early spring 2011 to winter 2013 as part of a doctoral research project. The production of empirical material took place in three Danish kindergartens through a combination of several qualitative methods, among others participant observation, interviews and creative activities with children.
KW - Eating
KW - care
KW - food
KW - health
KW - kindergarten
KW - meal
KW - taste
U2 - 10.1080/15528014.2017.1288783
DO - 10.1080/15528014.2017.1288783
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1528-9796
VL - 20
SP - 485
EP - 502
JO - Food, Culture and Society
JF - Food, Culture and Society
IS - 3
ER -