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Why did my school stop selling chocolate chip cookies the size of my head? Why does not my school sell pop anymore? Why does all the pizza come with a whole-wheat crust? Why is there so much local food at school now? If students studied school food and nutrition policies (SFNPs), they could answer these questions. Teaching about policy in schools takes it from the hidden curriculum—part of the unspoken academic, social, and cultural messages communicated to students (Hidden Curriculum In: Abbott S (ed) The glossary of education reform, 2014)—and makes it explicit. It takes students from being passive recipients of policy to active participants throughout the policy process—from identifying the need for policy change to developing, adopting, implementing, and evaluating it.
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McKenna, M., Brodovsky, S. (2016). School Food and Nutrition Policies as Tools for Learning. In: Sumner, J. (eds) Learning, Food, and Sustainability. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53904-5_11
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