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Smith, Christine Enid

This paper explores my reflective practice as a food literacy educator in implementing food literacy pedagogies. There has been a focus on functional/technical/operational knowledge and skills in the literature, less so of interactive/interpretive/cultural knowledge and skills; and critical/emancipatory food literacy. There is also very little written about how to teach food literacy. Therefore, my research question for my autoethnographic self-study is: as a home economics teacher focusing on using Food Literacy as a central theme in my teaching of Food Studies, what have I learned about implementing Food Literacy Education? I share my experiences, reflecting on my actual classroom and life experience and analyzing them with levels and competencies of food literacy in mind. I conclude that there needs more research on food literacy pedagogy and how Home Economics educators can be the bridge in advocating that our profession is “more than just cooking”.

Graduating Project

eng

2023-11-16

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

http://hdl.handle.net/2429/86607

Unreviewed

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/