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Food (in)security in the Canadian Arctic : a home economics educator’s narrative journey Johnson, Susie

Abstract

Food insecurity is a huge concern across the Canadian Arctic. Research shows that close to 70% of Inuit preschoolers live in food insecure homes and the overall prevalence of household food insecurity in the Arctic is close to 63% (Egeland, Williamson-Bathory, Johnson-Down & Sobol, 2011). The relatively recent transition from a traditional diet to a diet highly supplemented with expensive store-bought foods has contributed to the lack of food security among Inuit. Education can be part of the solution for food insecurity in Nunavut, and home economics teachers in Nunavut are in a unique position to be able to deliver a program that could assist in alleviating the high incidences of food insecurity in the territory. At the moment, very little research exists in terms of how home economic education can be a tool to support increasing food security levels in Nunavut. My selfstudy research looks my own experiences as a home economics teacher in the Arctic, with the goal of determining what role home economics education could possibly play in improving Nunavut’s currently dire food situation.

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Title
Food (in)security in the Canadian Arctic : a home economics educator’s narrative journey
Creator
Johnson, Susie
Date Issued
2018
Description
Food insecurity is a huge concern across the Canadian Arctic. Research shows that close to 70% of Inuit preschoolers live in food insecure homes and the overall prevalence of household food insecurity in the Arctic is close to 63% (Egeland, Williamson-Bathory, Johnson-Down & Sobol, 2011). The relatively recent transition from a traditional diet to a diet highly supplemented with expensive store-bought foods has contributed to the lack of food security among Inuit. Education can be part of the solution for food insecurity in Nunavut, and home economics teachers in Nunavut are in a unique position to be able to deliver a program that could assist in alleviating the high incidences of food insecurity in the territory. At the moment, very little research exists in terms of how home economic education can be a tool to support increasing food security levels in Nunavut. My selfstudy research looks my own experiences as a home economics teacher in the Arctic, with the goal of determining what role home economics education could possibly play in improving Nunavut’s currently dire food situation.
Subject
food security; food insecurity; Inuit; education; country food; traditional food; home economics
Geographic Location
Nunavut
Genre
Graduating Project
Type
Text
Language
eng
Series
University of British Columbia. EDCP 590
Date Available
2023-11-16
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0437733
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/86577
Affiliation
Education, Faculty of; Curriculum and Pedagogy (EDCP), Department of
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Graduate
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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