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Learning, Food, and Sustainability

Sites for Resistance and Change

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  • © 2016

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Editors:
  1. Jennifer Sumner

    1. University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

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  • First book to address the role of education in exploring the intersection of learning and food at the interface with sustainability
  • Presents a broad pedagogical approach to the question of food, it will focus on learning, resistance and change in a number of key sites such as homes, communities, schools, and social movements
  • Hones in on social movements as sites of resistance and change

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxi
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  3. Learning, Food, and Sustainability in the School

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53
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    2. Learning, Food, and Sustainability in the School Curriculum

      • Pamela A. Koch
      Pages 55-73

    3. Developing a Learning Garden on a Mid-Western Land Grant University

      • Christopher D. Murakami
      Pages 75-92

    4. Food Education: From Normative Models to Promoting Agency

      • Kristiina Janhonen, Johanna Mäkelä, Päivi Palojoki
      Pages 93-110

  4. Learning, Food, and Sustainability in Social Movements

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111
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    2. Learning through Story as Political Praxis: The Role of Narratives in Community Food Work

      • Kim L. Niewolny, Phil D’Adamo-Damery
      Pages 113-131

    3. Learning, Food, and Sustainability in Community-Campus Engagement: Teaching and Research Partnerships That Strengthen the Food Sovereignty Movement

      • Peter Andrée, Lauren Kepkiewicz, Charles Levkoe, Abra Brynne, Cathleen Kneen
      Pages 133-153

    4. Re: Claiming Food Sovereignty, Reclaiming Ways of Knowing: Food Justice Course Digs Deeper

      • Deborah Barndt
      Pages 155-177

  5. Learning, Food, and Sustainability: Tools for the Future

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179
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    2. Youth and Food Literacy: A Case Study of Food Education at The Stop Community Food Centre

      • Sarah Goldstein
      Pages 181-200

    3. School Food and Nutrition Policies as Tools for Learning

      • Mary McKenna, Sharon Brodovsky
      Pages 201-220

    4. Learning to Transgress: Creating Transformative Spaces in and Beyond the Classroom

      • Angie Carter, Claudia M. Prado-Meza, Jessica Soulis
      Pages 221-237

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 239-270
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About this book

This edited volume explores the intersection of learning and food, both within and beyond the classroom, all within the context of sustainability.  Taking a broad pedagogical approach to the question of food, it focuses on learning and change in a number of key sites including schools, homes, communities, and social movements, keeping in mind that we need to learn our way out of our current unsustainable food system and in to more sustainable alternatives.  

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

    Jennifer Sumner

About the editor

Jennifer Sumner is Lecturer in the Adult Education and Community Development Program at the  Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) University of Toronto, Canada.  Her research interests include food and food systems, co-operatives, globalization, sustainability, rural communities, and critical pedagogy.  



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Learning, Food, and Sustainability

  • Book Subtitle: Sites for Resistance and Change

  • Editors: Jennifer Sumner

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53904-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-53903-8Published: 04 October 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-53904-5Published: 14 September 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXI, 270

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Sociology of Education

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