Back to School: A Qualitative Assessment of Public School Food Policies and their Value to Cultivate Healthy Eating Habits
Conference Year
January 2020
Abstract
This study investigates how local stakeholders and policies foster eating habits and define nutrition for children from kindergarten to eighth grade through close reading of academic texts and ethnographic research. I will ask how policies are in effect at local levels and how participants implement policies to answer whether Chittenden County public schools serve nutritious meals by meeting state and federal laws, or if they meet nutritive standards by superseding these policies.
Primary Faculty Mentor Name
Teresa Mares
Secondary Mentor Name
Jenny Grosvenor, Luis Vivanco
Status
Undergraduate
Student College
College of Arts and Sciences
Program/Major
Anthropology
Second Program/Major
Spanish
Primary Research Category
Arts & Humanities
Back to School: A Qualitative Assessment of Public School Food Policies and their Value to Cultivate Healthy Eating Habits
This study investigates how local stakeholders and policies foster eating habits and define nutrition for children from kindergarten to eighth grade through close reading of academic texts and ethnographic research. I will ask how policies are in effect at local levels and how participants implement policies to answer whether Chittenden County public schools serve nutritious meals by meeting state and federal laws, or if they meet nutritive standards by superseding these policies.