Forhandlinger af mangfoldighed i danske kommunernes kostpolitikker for dagtilbud

Abstract

The article presents a discourse analytical exploration of Danish Municipal meal guidelines. The purpose of the study is to map the municipalities' negotiation of diversity and the pedagogical meal assignments, which constitutes a tool for practitioners in municipal preschools. The study is based on a Laclau and Mouffe (1985) discourse analysis. The study indicates that there is no clear common understanding of diversity and the pedagogical meal assignment in Danish municipalities. The Municipalities' different approaches and negotiations of the pedagogical meal assignment appears in a continuum between a national conservative pole and a cosmopolitan pole.

Keywords: Early childhood education and care, policy, Meal, diversity