Insight from the Public on Home Economics and Formal Food Literacy

Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 415-430

  Pendergast, Donna ^a   Garvis, Susanne ^a   Kanasa, Harry ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Food literacy; Formal curriculum; Home economics; Informal curriculum

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955744530     PISSN: 1077727X     EISSN: 15523934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1552-3934.2011.02079.x     Document Type: Article

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