Relational identities and intergenerational learning in an undergraduate critical food studies course |
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| Authors: | Teresa K Lloro-Bidart Casey M Sidwell |
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| Institution: | 1. Liberal Studies, California State Polytechnic University Pomona, Pomona, California, USAtllor001@ucr.edu;3. Liberal Studies, California State Polytechnic University Pomona, Pomona, California, USA |
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| Abstract: | AbstractEnvironmental education (EE) scholars view intergenerational learning as a means to influence adult understandings of and relationships with the environment. Yet EE researchers have studied intergenerational learning in a limited fashion, with no emphasis on its role in higher education. The purpose of this article is to use feminist posthumanist theories to broadly explore intergenerational learning in critical food studies courses taught at the university level. We rely primarily on student coursework and post-course interviews as data sources that convey student perceptions of interactions with their families and the natural world, demonstrating how students develop relational identities shaped by personal experience as well as experiences in the course. To conclude, we discuss both the limitations and implications of this research for the field of EE. |
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| Keywords: | Identity intergenerational learning feminist posthumanism animals critical food systems education |
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