Kontopodis, M. orcid.org/0000-0003-3948-2265 (2016) Eating in the Nursery School: Pedagogy, Performativity & Biopolitics. Horizontes , 34 (2). ISSN 0103-7706
Abstract
The study presented here explores eating as a pedagogical practice. It pays attention to arrangements of things such as Christmas cookies, whole-wheat and white bread, frozen chicken, plates, chairs, tables, and freezers. Entering in dialogue with performativity theory and post-structuralist approaches, a series of ethnographic analyses from German and Brazilian nursery schools reveal how eating can be enacted as a sensual pleasure, a health risk, an ethnic custom, or a civil right within a variety of local pedagogical contexts. Through specific arrangements of foods and other things, young children are educated to eat with moderation, to change their ethnic dietary habits, or to become modern citizens. Pedagogy can thus entail doing public health, doing ethnic identity, or doing citizenship while eating is an important way of doing these in early childhood education and care settings.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 Horizontes. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Early Childhood Education & Care; Ethnicity; Obesity Prevention, Performance |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of Education (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 22 Nov 2016 10:26 |
Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2017 09:27 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.24933/horizontes.v34i2.465 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | University of São Francisco |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.24933/horizontes.v34i2.465 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:106869 |