Food Systems as a Civic Lens to Design Critical-Service-Learning
International Case Studies in Service Learning
ISBN: 978-1-80071-193-8, eISBN: 978-1-80071-192-1
Publication date: 16 November 2022
Abstract
Service learning is a pedagogical approach that primarily focuses upon achieving student learning outcomes through meaningful community engagement. While service-learning pedagogies provide “service” to community, the view of community partners from a deficit-oriented perspective can render service learning ineffective and, at worst, potentially harmful to the community served. This chapter presents a course that uses food as a civic lens through which to engage community, instructors, and students in CRITICAL-SERVICE-LEARNING where systemic inequities that contribute to community needs are focused upon, community partners are co-creators of course design, outcomes to student learning and community benefits are equitably considered, and collective knowledge and experience of stakeholders is valued.
Keywords
- Critical-service-learning
- Community
- Place-based
- Experiential learning
- Systemic inequities
- Power
- Case study
- Food
- Farming
- Outcomes
- Critical reflection
- Photovoice
- DEAL model
- Deficit-oriented
- Co-develop
- Reflective facilitator
- Experiential continuum
- Systems thinking
- Design thinking
- Scholarly identity
- Values
- Environmental rift
- Social rift
Citation
Angstmann, J.L. and Williamson, F.A. (2022), "Food Systems as a Civic Lens to Design Critical-Service-Learning", Sengupta, E. and Blessinger, P. (Ed.) International Case Studies in Service Learning (Innovations in Higher Education Teaching and Learning, Vol. 47), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 27-45. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2055-364120220000047003
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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