OCCASIONAL PAPER 11 - ‘Big, Strong and Healthy’? Children, Food and Eating in the Early Years, and the Role Preschools Can Play

Mimi Tatlow-Golden, Open University

This paper explores why preschool educators can be key figures in formal and informal pedagogies of food. In this paper, Mimi draws on interdisciplinary research to illuminate who’s responsible for children’s early eating preferences: children, parents, educators or others? Are preferences innate or do they originate in the worlds around children? The picture, as it turns out, is quite complex.

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