Researching Children's Mealtimes

A Practical Guide for Interactional Analyses of Children's Eating Practices in Everyday Settings
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-86873-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 180 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Offering a groundbreaking interdisciplinary guide, this book explores children’s eating practices through the lens of social interaction. It moves beyond individualistic perspectives to uncover the rich, everyday dynamics of mealtimes.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wiggins, Sally

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Entwicklungspsychologie Kinder- und Jugendpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie Psychologische Diagnostik, Testpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the author. Preface. Acknowledgements. 1: On researching how children eat. 2: Eating as a social activity. 3: Capturing eating as it happens. 4: Starting to eat. 5: Developing tastes. 6: Establishing likes. 7: Negotiating refusals. 8: Achieving satiety. 9: Beyond mealtimes. Glossary. Sample consent form. Transcription symbols. References. Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Sally Wiggins Young is a leading expert in research on family mealtimes and children’s eating practices and has been an active and internationally prominent researcher since the early 2000s. Her research specialises in Discursive Psychology, and she is internationally renowned as an expert in this approach, having written a solo-authored textbook (Discursive psychology: Theory, method, and applications, Sage, 2017) and co-edited three books (Discursive psychology and embodiment, Palgrave, 2020; Critical Bodies, Palgrave, 2008; Discursive Research in Practice, CUP, 2007). Her empirical research spans 25 years and covers children’s eating practices from infancy (weaning) to early childhood in family mealtimes and kindergarten, as well as teenagers and older adults in family dinners. She has a blog on eating talk entitled Mouth:Full that is already attracting attention worldwide.