School canteens as spaces for nutrition education: theoretical premises and initial reflections from the PNRR ONFOOD project

Abstract

There are many dimensions involved in food: health, well-being, culture, socialization, and economy. Schools, through the school meal service, play a socialcultural and educational-pedagogical role in this field. The PNRR ONFOODS project, promoted by the Ministry of University and Research, and which also includes the SUSFOODEDU research group, set up by the Department of Educational Sciences of the University of Bologna, aims to investigate how the practices, cultures and knowledge of food are enacted in school canteens, a privileged context for the experimentation of significant pedagogical experiences in the educational, social and public health fields. The following article aims to introduce the project developed by the SUSFOODEDU research group from a reflection on the analysis of the literature that has developed research on practices and cultural representations around nutrition education.