Abstract We investigate trends in food education in French secondary schools through a diachronic study of school biology curricula and textbooks produced over the past 50 years as they convey a sense of “danger” or “trust” in the foods pupils eat and the foods and food systems they learn about. Our results show that a vision of “sanitized” man and the implicit valorization of industrial and medical progress characterize the life sciences curricula after 1945, leading to progressively fewer incursions into food safety issues and greater emphasis on the encouragement of nutritional responsibility on the part of youngsters. Our analysis of school textbooks suggests a concurrent trend, apparent since the 1980s, toward decontextualized depictions of food and food practices, and simplification of issues relating to food risks. This trend is reinforced by the introduction of educational approaches to health in schools in the early 2000s. Reductionist visions of nutrition within educational approaches to health, which accentuate and promote the role of individual self governance, have led to an emphasis, in school curricula and biology textbooks, on encouraging rational behavior at the expense of in-depth, systemic and complex explorations of food practice and risk factors to health and biological functions.

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年轻人可以信赖的知识和价值观：1945 年以来法国生命科学教学中的营养和食品实践

摘要 我们通过对过去 50 年制作的学校生物课程和教科书的历时研究来调查法国中学食品教育的趋势，因为它们传达了对学生吃的食物以及食物和食物的“危险”或“信任”感。他们学习的系统。我们的研究结果表明，1945 年后生命科学课程的特点是“净化”的人的愿景和对工业和医学进步的隐含价值，导致逐渐减少对食品安全问题的介入，并更加强调鼓励营养责任。年轻人。我们对学校教科书的分析表明，自 1980 年代以来，出现了一个明显的趋势，即对食物和食物实践的描述脱离背景，并简化与食物风险相关的问题。2000 年代初在学校引入了健康教育方法，进一步强化了这一趋势。健康教育方法中关于营养的还原论观点强调和促进个人自我管理的作用，导致学校课程和生物教科书强调鼓励理性行为，而牺牲了深入、系统和复杂的探索食品实践和健康和生物功能的风险因素。