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In Australia, the UK and more recently the USA, attempts to ameliorate a range of public health concerns have provided the impetus for an unprecedented proliferation of school food initiativesand legislative reforms governing the types of foods that may or may not be provided within schools. While academic enquiry in this area has largely focussed upon attempts to govern children, recent initiatives in the UK and Australia have begun to target parents in their attempts to promote healthy food practices. In this paper we interrogate the ways in which parents, or more specifically, mothers are positioned in relation to school food discourses in Australia and in the UK and suggest that school food has become a site through which an array of pedagogical opportunities are opened  \nJo Pike and Deana Leahy 435  \nup to invoke particular subject positions premised on normative views of affective middle class motherhood. In short, we seek to explore the means through which mothers come to be regarded as legitimate targets of school food pedagogy. The paper draws on empirical data from Australia and the UK to compare a range of pedagogic techniques employed in the two countries. Drawing on governmentality studies we explore how school food pedagogies seek to regulate mothers and their children’s food related choices. We consider school lunches and the various techniques that have been deployed in both countries to consider the moralising work that takes place around food and motherhood.  \nIntroduction  \nOver the last decade the issue of school food has dominated the public health agenda across the higher OECD countries such as Australia, the UK and more recently the USA. School food and the myriad initiatives related to healthy eating have provided a forum through which concerns over the future health and wellbeing of children are articulated. As such, the recent campaign of celebrity chef, Jamie Oliver to improve both the nutritional quality and the aesthetic appeal of school lunches has become part of the dominant discourse surrounding school meals and has been recognised as an influential factor in mobilising public opinion. However, the preoccupation with school food is characteristic of far wider concerns about the condition of modern childhood; concerns which are embedded within specific ways of thinking about women, class and the family (Gustafsson, 2002) .  \nWhile policy and political discourses configure responsibility for the feeding of children in gender neutral terms through the use of the word parent, it is acknowledged that any analysis of feeding practices necessarily entails thinking about motherhood and  \n436 School food and the pedagogies of parenting  \nfemininity (De Vault, 1991; Lupton, 1996; Warin et al., 2008) . Such analyses point to the positioning of women as responsible guardians of future generations (Maher et al., 2010) while others have argued that it is specific groups of women, namely the poor that carry the burden of blame for jeopardising the health, education and potential productivity of future citizens (Gillies, 2007; Walkerdine & Lucey, 1989). In terms of parenting,‘Working class mothering practices are held up as the antithesis of good parenting, largely through their association with poor outcomes for children’(Gillies, 2007:2) . In relation to school food, working class women are constituted through media and governmental discourse as lacking in taste, education and morality and this is constructed in opposition to the normative position of effective middle class motherhood. Thus while ch","cbCaikPSCdbmmJ43","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikPSCdbmmJ43","pdf",222632,26,"English","# Introduction\n## Public health agenda and school food initiatives\n## Gender-neutral policy and motherhood positioning\n## Ethnographic methods and comparative data","[{\"question\":\"What is the central focus of the paper?\",\"answer\":\"The paper investigates how mothers are positioned in relation to school food discourses and pedagogies in Australia and the UK, and how these pedagogies enroll parents in a moral project of the self.\"},{\"question\":\"What approach does the paper use to analyze school food pedagogy?\",\"answer\":\"It draws on governmentality studies to explore how school food pedagogies regulate mothers and their children’s food-related decisions.\"},{\"question\":\"What kind of data does the paper use from the two countries?\",\"answer\":\"It uses empirical data from two ethnographic studies in schools: observations, interviews, and participatory activities with children in the UK, and similar ethnographic techniques in secondary schools in Victoria, Australia.\"}]","School food and the pedagogies of parenting | PDF",1792077345,66]