Food Justice Activism and Pedagogies

Food Justice Activism and Pedagogies
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 283
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ISBN-10 : 9781793650696
ISBN-13 : 1793650691
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis Food Justice Activism and Pedagogies by : Eileen E. Schell

In this edited collection, contributors analyze the literacies, rhetorics, and pedagogies needed to transform food systems and create sustainable food systems. Scholars of rhetoric, interdisciplinary food studies, and sociology will find this book of particular interest.

Activist Art in Social Justice Pedagogy

Activist Art in Social Justice Pedagogy
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Publisher : Counterpoints
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1433112302
ISBN-13 : 9781433112300
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis Activist Art in Social Justice Pedagogy by : Barbara Beyerbach

Artists have always had a role in imagining a more socially just, inclusive world - many have devoted their lives to realizing this possibility. In a culture ever more embedded in performance and the visual, an examination of the role of the arts in multicultural teaching for social justice is timely. This book examines and critiques approaches to using activist art to teach a multicultural curriculum. Examples of activist artists and their strategies illustrate how study of and engagement in this process connect local and global issues that can deepen critical literacy and a commitment to social justice. This book is relevant to those interested in teaching more about artist/activist social movements around the globe; preparing pre-service teachers to teach for social justice; concerned about learning how to engage diverse learners through the arts; and teaching courses related to arts-based multicultural education, critical literacy, and culturally relevant teaching.

Like a Love Story

Like a Love Story
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Publisher : HarperCollins
Total Pages : 355
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ISBN-10 : 9780062839381
ISBN-13 : 0062839381
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis Like a Love Story by : Abdi Nazemian

Stonewall Honor Book * A Time Magazine Best YA Book of All Time "A book for warriors, divas, artists, queens, individuals, activists, trend setters, and anyone searching for the courage to be themselves.”—Mackenzi Lee, New York Times bestselling author of The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue It’s 1989 in New York City, and for three teens, the world is changing. Reza is an Iranian boy who has just moved to the city with his mother to live with his stepfather and stepbrother. He’s terrified that someone will guess the truth he can barely acknowledge about himself. Reza knows he’s gay, but all he knows of gay life are the media’s images of men dying of AIDS. Judy is an aspiring fashion designer who worships her uncle Stephen, a gay man with AIDS who devotes his time to activism as a member of ACT UP. Judy has never imagined finding romance...until she falls for Reza and they start dating. Art is Judy’s best friend, their school’s only out and proud teen. He’ll never be who his conservative parents want him to be, so he rebels by documenting the AIDS crisis through his photographs. As Reza and Art grow closer, Reza struggles to find a way out of his deception that won’t break Judy’s heart—and destroy the most meaningful friendship he’s ever known. This is a bighearted, sprawling epic about friendship and love and the revolutionary act of living life to the fullest in the face of impossible odds.

Social Justice Pedagogies

Social Justice Pedagogies
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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Total Pages : 236
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ISBN-10 : 9781487555467
ISBN-13 : 1487555466
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis Social Justice Pedagogies by : Katrina Sark

Social Justice Pedagogies provides a diverse and wide perspective into making education more robust and useful in light of global injustices and new challenges posed by new media and communication practices, media manipulation, right-wing populism, climate crisis, and intersectional discriminations. Meant to inspire readers to see learning and teaching from a wider perspective of justice, inclusion, equity, and creativity, it argues that relational and mindful approaches to teaching and learning in specific contexts, settings, and place-based experiences are essential in how we determine the value of education. The book draws on contributions from scholars and experts who incorporate social justice into their teaching practices in different disciplines in universities across Canada, the US, and Europe. Social Justice Pedagogies uniquely presents a wide interdisciplinary perspective on social justice in education practices in order to speak to the ways in which we all want to make our research, our classrooms, and our institutions more just. It argues that pedagogy, and specifically teaching and learning, constitutes a process of building relationships between people and knowledge by fostering a learning community.

Pedagogy of the Poor

Pedagogy of the Poor
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Publisher : Teachers College Press
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0807752290
ISBN-13 : 9780807752296
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis Pedagogy of the Poor by : Willie Baptist

In this book, the authors present a new kind of interdisciplinary pedagogy that brings together antipoverty grassroots activism and relevant social theories about poverty. Closely linked to the Poverty Initiative at Union Theological Seminary, this unique book combines the oral history of a renowned antipoverty organizer with an accessible introduction to relevant social theories, case studies, in-class student debates, and pedagogical reflections. This multilayered approach makes the book useful to both social activists committed to eradicating poverty and educators looking for ways to teach about the struggles for economic and social justice. Pedagogy of the Poor is an essential tool of self-education and leadership development for a broad social movement led by the poor to end poverty. Featuring a 5-part series of interviews with Willie Baptist, this important book examines: Firsthand examples of the poor organizing the poor over the past 3 decades. The effect of neoliberalism, high-tech capitalism, and the economic crisis on poverty. Theoretical lessons drawn from the Watts Uprising, Martin Luther Kin, Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign, and the National Union of the Homeless. The role of religion and morality in the antipoverty movement. The relevance of hegemony theory and ideology theory for social movements. Resources, methods, and practices for teaching social justice.

Activist Science and Technology Education

Activist Science and Technology Education
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 650
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ISBN-10 : 9789400743601
ISBN-13 : 9400743602
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis Activist Science and Technology Education by : Larry Bencze

This collection examines issues of agency, power, politics and identity as they relate to science and technology and education, within contemporary settings. Social, economic and ecological critique and reform are examined by numerous contributing authors, from a range of international contexts. These chapters examine pressing pedagogical questions within socio-scientific contexts, including petroleum economies, food justice, health, environmentalism, climate change, social media and biotechnologies. Readers will discover far reaching inquiries into activism as an open question for science and technology education, citizenship and democracy. The authors call on the work of prominent scholars throughout the ages, including Bourdieu, Foucault, Giroux, Jasanoff, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Rancière and Žižek. The application of critical theoretical scholarship to mainstream practices in science and technology education distinguishes this book, and this deep, theoretical treatment is complemented by many grounded, more pragmatic exemplars of activist pedagogies. Practical examples are set within the public sphere, within selected new social movements, and also within more formal institutional settings, including elementary and secondary schools, and higher education. These assembled discussions provide a basis for a more radically reflexive reworking of science and technology education. Educational policy makers, science education scholars, and science and technology educators, amongst others, will find this work thought-provoking, instructive and informative.

The Oxford Handbook of Media and Social Justice

The Oxford Handbook of Media and Social Justice
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 337
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ISBN-10 : 9780197744369
ISBN-13 : 0197744362
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Media and Social Justice by : Srividya Ramasubramanian

The urgency and complexity of contemporary social justice issues facing the world today mean that activists, scholars, and storytellers need a readily available compendium of cutting-edge scholarship on media and social justice. The Oxford Handbook of Media and Social Justice gathers over forty leading scholars and presents a state-of-the-art systematic overview of media and social justice. Representing leading voices across positionalities and perspectives, geographies and generations, meta-theories and methods, and issues and identities, the Handbook explores intersecting identities, social structures, and power networks within media ownership, representation, selection, uses, effects, networks, and social transformation. These theories, methods, and practices expose media and digital divides, polarization, marginalization, exclusion, alienation, invisibilities, stigma, and trivializations. Yet, they also showcase how individuals and communities also have agency through refusal and resistance. Each of the 32 chapters includes a brief history, key concepts, contemporary debates and dialogues, and future directions, and the volume concludes with reflections on resistances, reckoning, and reparative justice. Connecting critical media scholarship with intersectional feminism, postcolonial/anticolonial theory, Indigenous approaches, queer theory, diaspora studies, and environmental justice frameworks, the Handbook re-envisions the role of media and technology with an inclusive trauma-informed approach to scholarship that is essential for the future of this research.

Food Pedagogies

Food Pedagogies
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 270
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ISBN-10 : 9781317134299
ISBN-13 : 131713429X
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis Food Pedagogies by : Rick Flowers

In recent years everyone from politicians to celebrity chefs has been proselytizing about how we should grow, buy, prepare, present, cook, taste, eat and dispose of food. In light of this, contributors to this book argue that food has become the target of intensified pedagogical activity across a range of domains, including schools, supermarkets, families, advertising and TV media. Illustrated with a range of empirical studies, this edited and interdisciplinary volume - the first book on food pedagogies - develops innovative and theoretical perspectives to problematize the practices of teaching and learning about food. While many different pedagogues - policy makers, churches, activists, health educators, schools, tourist agencies, chefs - think we do not know enough about food and what to do with it, the aims, effects and politics of these pedagogies has been much less studied. Drawing on a range of international studies, diverse contexts, genres and different methods, this book provides new sites of investigation and lines of inquiry. As a result of its broad ranging critical evaluation of ’food as classroom’ and ’food as teacher’, it provides theoretical resources for opening up the concept of pedagogy, and assessing the moralities and politics of teaching and learning about food in the classroom and beyond.

The Fat Pedagogy Reader

The Fat Pedagogy Reader
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Publisher : Peter Lang
Total Pages : 293
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ISBN-10 : 9781433125676
ISBN-13 : 1433125676
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis The Fat Pedagogy Reader by : Erin Cameron

Over the past decade, concerns about a global «obesity epidemic» have flourished. Public health messages around physical activity, fitness, and nutrition permeate society despite significant evidence disputing the «facts» we have come to believe about «obesity». We live in a culture that privileges thinness and enables weight-based oppression, often expressed as fat phobia and fat bullying. New interdisciplinary fields that problematize «obesity» have emerged, including critical obesity studies, critical weight studies, and fat studies. There also is a small but growing literature examining weight-based oppression in educational settings in what has come to be called «fat pedagogy». The very first book of its kind, The Fat Pedagogy Reader brings together an international, interdisciplinary roster of respected authors who share heartfelt stories of oppression, privilege, resistance, and action; fascinating descriptions of empirical research; confessional tales of pedagogical (mis)adventures; and diverse accounts of educational interventions that show promise. Taken together, the authors illuminate both possibilities and pitfalls for fat pedagogy that will be of interest to scholars, educators, and social justice activists. Concluding with a fat pedagogy manifesto, the book lays a solid foundation for this important and exciting new field. This book could be adopted in courses in fat studies, critical weight studies, bodies and embodiment, fat pedagogy, feminist pedagogy, gender and education, critical pedagogy, social justice education, and diversity in education.

The Rhetoric of Dystopia

The Rhetoric of Dystopia
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 215
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ISBN-10 : 9781666941494
ISBN-13 : 1666941492
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis The Rhetoric of Dystopia by : Christopher Carter

The Rhetoric of Dystopia develops an idea of “emergent metalepsis” that describes the uncanny moments where fictive texts anticipate material events, blurring the boundary between the storyworld and the world of reception. Christopher Carter treats dystopia as rhetoric that shapes collective identities while speeding across platforms and geopolitical borders, at once critiquing and exemplifying the circulation of power relations through varied modes. This rhetoric features rampant viruses, authoritarian governments, corporate behemoths, corrupt educational and scientific institutions, and brutal policing, sometimes amplifying existing trends and sometimes merely documenting them. From Bong Joon-ho to Reed Morano, Octavia Butler to Richard McGuire, artists proffer arguments whose gravity we often fail to register, thus calling into question the uses of media literacy in an age of looming cataclysm. Carter situates this rhetoric within scholarship on literacy, built environments, border policies, global food production, and the Anthropocene.