www.helsinki.fi/yliopisto Food sense and the changing food culture of the children in the Nordic countries/Matinsikt och barnens föränderliga matkultur i Norden Johanna Mäkelä, Department of Teacher Education Food culture and food education strengthen the Nordic Brand Nordisk matkultur och matfostran stärker nordisk branding 18 August 2016 Helsinki
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Food sense and the changing foodculture of the children in the Nordic
countries/Matinsikt och barnensföränderliga matkultur i NordenJohanna Mäkelä, Department of Teacher Education
Food culture and food education strengthen the Nordic BrandNordisk matkultur och matfostran stärker nordisk branding
18 August 2016 Helsinki
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• food work as a core of family life• having children effects food habits and division oflabour at home• family as a context for mediating and caring for foodculture• food habits interpreted as signs of family life andwell-being• a family eating together stays together… ideal is self-cooked healthy ”home food” of domestic origin eatentogether
Food in everyday family life (1)
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• socialization and education of children at thetable• from helplessness to supercommitment• convenience food and take-aways as asolution• decision making and division of labour
Food in everyday family life (2)
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Growing into a food culture
• the importance of local food culture(s)• home meals
• longing for and appreciating of family meals
• the strains of busy everyday life
• in Finland, there is respect for free of charge hotschool lunches despite criticism
• NB! different Nordic school lunch systems
• the crucial role of peers• own family as a model (mothers!?)• the changing expertise
Bean Boozled Challenge: a Russianroulette with candies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOrREIs2NhQ
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Candies are sometimes really bad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IehqVAFNQ2s
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• knowledge, skills, adaptations, variations,resistance• what do adults want and what do children want?• many roles and meanings of food and eating• contextuality• different food cultures
Contradictions?
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The importance ofunderstanding childrens’agency and participation
Janhonen, K. (2016) Adolescents’ Participation and Agency inFood Education. Summary available online:
https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/159380
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Food senseruokataju/matinsikt
Janhonen, Kristiina, Mäkelä, Johanna & Palojoki, Päivi (2016)
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• an understanding of cultural and social meanings thatrelate to food and eating as local and global systems
• the opportunity of potentially acting against one’sknowledge of a healthy and sustainable diet
• the notion of food sense aims to promote people’sagency and empowerment, as well as joy and pleasureattached to food
• knowledge in relation to food sense refers not only tothe ability to make nutritionally balanced choices, butalso to the ability to understand the complexities of thesurrounding world
• examining food related processes and choices ascollective rather than merely individual activities
Food sense (1)
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• the term food sense aims at taking distance from theindividual and knowledge-based focus that has beencritiqued in reference to the concept food literacy
• the definition of food sense acknowledges the cultural,social and societal dimensions of eating, the context- andpractice-bound aspects of food choices, as well as thenotion of sustainability according to its broad definition
• the core idea of food sense is to be able to make sense ofcomplex and wide-reaching subject areas that take root ineveryday practices, as well as to understand the relationsof one’s own choices to community and structuralsurroundings
• we suggest the concept of food sense as a potentialplatform for food education
Food sense (2)
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Food sense: references
• Janhonen, Kristiina, Mäkelä, Johanna & Palojoki, Päivi(2015). Perusopetuksen ruokakasvatus ravintotiedostaruokatajuun Teoksessa Luova ja vastuullinenkotitalousopetus = Creative and responsible homeeconomics education. Janhonen-Abruquah, H. & Palojoki, P.(toim.). Helsinki: Helsingin yliopisto, Käyttäytymistieteellinentiedekunta, Kotitalous- ja käsityötieteiden julkaisuja; no. 38,Opettajankoulutuslaitos, 107-120.
• Janhonen, Kristiina, Kauppinen, Eila, Mäkelä, Johanna &Palojoki, Päivi (2016). Ruokataju on omakohtaistaymmärrystä ruokavalinnoista. Kotitalous 79 (2), 30-31.
• Janhonen, K., Mäkelä, J. & Palojoki, P. (2016). Foodeducation: from normative models to promoting agency. InSumner, J. (ed.), Learning, food, and sustainability: sites forresistance and change. Palgrave Macmillan, in press.