Fallow lands of plenty : public schools as leaders in rural food system relocalization

"Can public schools feed themselves? That deceptively simple question is like a fingernail picking at a fray in the fabric of 21st century public education. Fallow Lands of Plenty chronicles one high school's attempt to feed itself and, in doing so, unravels the fabric of neoliberal educat...

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Main Author Klein, Eric A. (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : IAP | Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2023]
SeriesTransforming education for the future.
Subjects
Education, Rural > Appalachian Region, Southern > Case studies.
Place-based education > Appalachian Region, Southern > Case studies.
Food supply > Appalachian Region, Southern > Case studies.
Local foods > Appalachian Region, Southern > Case studies.
Education > Student Life & Student Affairs.
Educational administration and organization.
Student life.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806601967
DOI10.1108/9798887302942
Physical Description1 online resource (208 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Calf deep in red clay
  • Questions at the intersection of the education and food systems
  • Organization of volume
  • Making new roads at the intersection of the food and public education systems
  • The long view on 21st century American education
  • Setting
  • Bailey County
  • Sternhill Farm
  • Highland High School
  • Highland High School's cafeteria
  • Participants
  • Student-grown food participants
  • The seeds saver of Highland High School
  • The storyteller and his positionalities
  • Reflexive reflections on student seed saver recruitment
  • Reflexive reflections on recruiting community seed savers
  • The collective forgetting
  • seeds that remember
  • The fading agricultural traditions of Bailey County
  • 21st Century agricultural education
  • Seeds that forget
  • The actions we took
  • Heritages of action
  • Horses pulling in different directions
  • Local food systems and food sovereignty
  • Teaching and learning how to grow our own food
  • Student-grown food is not farm to school
  • Analysis
  • Comment on farm to cafeteria success
  • System (mis)(re)alignment
  • Elder knowledge versus school knowledge
  • Appreciation and values in the cafeteria
  • Embedded agency
  • Food as a community connector
  • Going forward
  • Summary of key findings
  • Epistemic loss
  • Community connection
  • Commodity versus community
  • Methodological consideration
  • Shifting contexts
  • Relocalization pedagogy
  • Climate change science
  • Towards a pedagogy of relocalization
  • Closing thoughts.

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