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ERIC Number: EJ1239614
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 17
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ISSN: ISSN-0305-764X
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'Who Likes Fish? And I Don't Mean Fish Fingers!' Taste Education, Culinary Capital, and Distinction in a Rural Middle-Class Primary School
Cambridge Journal of Education, v50 n1 p77-93 2020
This paper explores how middle-class distinction is produced in a primary school by focusing on four different 'scenes'. Using Bourdieu's notion of distinction, this paper shows how children are educated on matters of middle-class taste. I argue that privilege is produced through food education in different formats. This taste education goes beyond what one should merely eat and consume. It is situated within a middle-class nostalgia for rural 'villageness'. While this type of distinction is not in and of itself problematic, this paper discusses the implications for when these ideas are taken up in policy, and expected of all schools. I argue educators need to be aware of how these values are being rolled out as universal values, expected of schools in diverse areas. Educators should pay attention to how middle-class distinction and privilege is produced and reproduced in schools, in order to create a more inclusive food education.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (England)
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