Sustainable Food Systems Pedagogies
Project Lead
Will Valley, Senior Instructor, Academic Director of the Land, Food and Community Series, Faculty of Land and Food Systems (PI)
Funding
Teaching and Learning Fund, UBC University Sustainability Initiative
About the Project
This project seeks to spur critical and creative thought regarding challenges of professional education in the field of sustainable food systems. Based off of evaluating different North American food systems education programs, the findings were reported in “An emerging signature pedagogy for sustainable food systems education” and seek to spur critical and creative thought regarding challenges of professional education in the field of sustainable food systems. The paper outlines the common themes across existing programs, including systems thinking, multi-, inter- and transdisciplinarity, experiential learning and participation in collective action projects, in order to inform future food systems education programs.
External Links and Publications
Valley, W., Wittman, H., Ahmed, S., Jordan, N., Galt, R., 2017. An emerging signature pedagogy for sustainable food systems education. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems 1–14. doi:10.1017/S1742170517000199&domain=pdf
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