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      Sandwiches and subversion: Teachers' mealtime strategies and preschoolers' agency.

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          Mealtimes are understudied processes in the social research on childhood. Our study uses ethnographic methods in two preschools in the southeastern United States to understand the types of strategies teachers use during meals and children's responses to these strategies. We identified three strategies teachers used to attempt to modify children's consumption: gatekeeping, directives, and hyperbolic justifications of consumption. We argue that children used agency to subvert to teachers' strategies using silent and verbal techniques, including attempting to open packages of restricted foods, pretending to eat, and refusing to eat. Their subversion manifested in either "dissent" or "feigned assent."

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          Journal
          Childhood
          Childhood (Copenhagen, Denmark)
          SAGE Publications
          0907-5682
          0907-5682
          Aug 2015
          : 22
          : 3
          Affiliations
          [1 ] University of South Florida, USA.
          [2 ] Emory University, USA.
          Article
          NIHMS780325
          10.1177/0907568214539711
          5016031
          27616817
          65a34094-e20f-4def-9928-62c2c226357f
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          Agency,directives,ethnography,mealtime,preschool
          Agency, directives, ethnography, mealtime, preschool

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