Overlooked issues of religious identity in the school dinners debate
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23154553 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alison Twiner (0000-0002-6479-9910, The Open University, corresponding author), Guy Cook (0000-0001-8907-7212, The Open University), Julia Gillen (0000-0003-2356-3423, Lancaster University) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 473-488 |
| Publication date | 2009-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cambridge Journal of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-764X • E-ISSN: 1469-3577 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03057640903352457 |
| OpenAlex | W2130101693 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 9 |
The TV broadcast of Jamie's school dinners in 2005 prompted action throughout the UK to improve the standards of school meals. A public debate continues across the media around changes, resistance to them and consequences. This article draws upon the findings of a one‐year ESRC‐funded project on the English school dinners debate, which analysed interviews with stakeholders, focus groups of primary and secondary pupils and their parents, and corpora of newspaper articles and relevant websites. We focus here on our finding of a neglected area of the debate: provision for religious diets, dealing in particular with halal. Despite many intentions by providers to meet complex requirements, these are imperfectly understood, and pupils requiring religious diets may not be benefiting from general reforms. Our analysis suggests that improved communications could lead to better understanding of need and take up of school meals provision.
Action (physics) · Focus group · Identity (music) · Media studies · Newspaper · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Resistance (ecology) · Sociology · Gender Studies · Halal products and consumer behavior · Religion, Society, and Development · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0.43 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |