Pedagogy, place, and food education in Australian schools: lessons from Tropical North Queensland

Figures & data

Figure 1. Overview of the TNSS campus.

Figure 2. Singular food items provided by explicit instruction Prep and Y1 students.

Table 1. Food types and average number of drawings per student.

Stream	Processed food total	Natural food total	Average no. of items drawn per student
Experiential	19	87	4.24
Explicit	38	41	2.07894737

Figure 3. Drawings from the experiential stream (top) and explicit stream (bottom).

Table 2. Tropical place-specific fruits and vegetables drawn by the students.

Figure 4. Drawings reflecting different local and exotic foods.

Figure 5. Coca-Cola, Skittles (x2), M&M’s, and a comforting yet placeless McDonald's.

Figure 6. A Dinosaur in a Broccoli Forest drawn by an explicit instruction student.