One big rush: dinner-time at school
- 1 March 1995
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Health Education Journal
- Vol. 54 (1) , 18-27
- https://doi.org/10.1177/001789699505400103
Abstract
The qualitatiye study described in this paper considers the social context of school meals in an urban primary school in southern England. The study was designed to provide information about the factors affecting children's food consumption, the contexts in which food is eaten in school and rushed and stressful occasion rather than a pleasant social experience. rerely related to teaching and learning about food in the classroom. Lunch break is too long ... You have twenty minutes in the canteen for your lunch and it's a scramble and you have an hour outside and they lock the classrooms so you have to stay outside1 .Keywords
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