Learning, Food, and Sustainability

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.

Section I: Learning, Food, and Sustainability in the Home and Community
Chapter 1: Learning and Food at the Mother's Breast
Chapter 2: The Tale of the Crying Rice: The Role of Unpaid Foodwork and Learning in Food Waste Prevention and Reduction in Indonesian Households
Chapter 3: Learning, Food and Sustainability in Healthcare Settings
Section II: Learning, Food, and Sustainability in the School Chapter 4: Learning, Food, and Sustainability in the School Curriculum
Chapter 5: Developing a Learning Garden on a Mid-Western Land Grant University
Chapter 6: Food Education: From Normative Models to Promoting Agency
Section III: Learning, Food, and Sustainability in Social Movements
Chapter 7: Learning Through Story as Political Praxis: The Role of Narratives in Community Food Work
Chapter 8: Learning, Food and Sustainability in Community-Campus Engagement: Teaching and Research Partnerships that Strengthen the Food Sovereignty Movement Chapter 9: Re:Claiming Food Sovereignty, Reclaiming Ways of Knowing: Food Justice Course Digs Deeper
Section IV: Learning, Food, and Sustainability- Tools for the Future
Chapter 10: Youth and Food Literacy: A Case Study of Food Education at the The Stop Community Food Centre
Chapter 11: School Food and Nutrition Policies as Tools for Learning
Chapter 12: Learning to Transgress: Creating Transformative Spaces in and beyond the Classroom
Afterword