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Från 7-Eleven till vegetarisk KRAV-märkt buffé: Den förändrade organisationen av skolmåltider och dess relation till skolornas symboliska tillgångar
Södertörn University, Lärarutbildningen.
2011 (Swedish)Independent thesis Advanced level (professional degree), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

The purpose of this study is to examine how school meals are organized in a selection of Stockholm's secondary schools and to examine the relationship between school meals and the different parameters that indicate each school's symbolic capital and educational capital. By looking at the statistics from each school on the basis of the final grade average, percentage of pupils with foreign background and gender, I examine whether it is possible to see a relationship between how schools organize meals and which pupils attend the school.  In my study, I systematically went through each school's website and tried to identify how school meals at each school are organized. To increase the validity of the study, I have also conducted a questionnaire survey by mail addressed to school principals.   In order to analyse and understand my results and put them in relation to my current knowledge about the schools in my sample, I am using Bourdieu's theoretical tools that a given aid, both in methodological and analytical purpose. Based on Bourdieu's theories of symbolic capital, cultural capital and educational capital, I can understand and analyse school meals are organized and focused as part of schools' symbolic assets in competition with other schools.   The first part of the study shows that there are four different organizational models for school meals, fully equipped kitchen and canteen, heating kitchen and canteen, school meals in restaurants and school meal card.    In the second part, I have examined the relationship between the type of organization for school meals used and the symbolic resources available at the school. I can conclude from the results that it is difficult to find a correlation between the symbolic resources and the different categories. But even though it is not possible to see all the schools' symbolic assets equally clear, there are still some very telling examples. In many ways, these examples can be seen as polar opposites to each other based on Mikael Palme’s concepts ”goal rational” and ”education oriented” schools.

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2011. , p. 35
Keywords [en]
school meals, Bourdieu, foreign origin, gender, student performance, cultural capital, symbolic capital, educational capital
Keywords [sv]
skolmåltider, Bourdieu, utländsk bakgrund, kön, elevprestationer, kulturellt kapital, symboliskt kapital, utbildningskapital
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Educational Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-15264OAI: oai:DiVA.org:sh-15264DiVA, id: diva2:488221
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Education Studies
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Humanities, Theology
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Available from: 2012-02-02 Created: 2012-02-01 Last updated: 2012-02-02Bibliographically approved

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