This edited volume explores the intersection of learning and food, both within and beyond the classroom, all within the context of sustainability. Taking a broad pedagogical approach to the question of food, it focuses on learning and change in a number of key sites including schools, homes, communities, and social movements, keeping in mind that we need to learn our way out of our current unsustainable food system and in to more sustainable alternatives.

First book to address the role of education in exploring the intersection of learning and food at the interface with sustainability Presents a broad pedagogical approach to the question of food, it will focus on learning, resistance and change in a number of key sites such as homes, communities, schools, and social movements Hones in on social movements as sites of resistance and change

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Jennifer Sumner is Lecturer in the Adult Education and Community Development Program at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) University of Toronto, Canada. Her research interests include food and food systems, co-operatives, globalization, sustainability, rural communities, and critical pedagogy.

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Section I: Learning, Food, and Sustainability in the Home and Community.- Chapter 1: Learning and Food at the Mother's Breast.- Chapter 2: The Tale of the Crying Rice: The Role of Unpaid Foodwork and Learning in Food Waste Prevention and Reduction in Indonesian Households.- Chapter 3: Learning, Food and Sustainability in Healthcare Settings.- Section II: Learning, Food, and Sustainability in the School.- Chapter 4: Learning, Food, and Sustainability in the School CurriculumChapter 5: Developing a Learning Garden on a Mid-Western Land Grant University.- Chapter 6: Food Education: From Normative Models to Promoting Agency.- Section III: Learning, Food, and Sustainability in Social Movements.- Chapter 7: Learning Through Story as Political Praxis: The Role of Narratives in Community Food Work.- Chapter 8: Learning, Food and Sustainability in Community-Campus Engagement: Teaching and Research Partnerships that Strengthen the Food Sovereignty Movement.- Chapter 9: Re:Claiming Food Sovereignty, Reclaiming Ways of Knowing: Food Justice Course Digs Deeper.- Section IV: Learning, Food, and Sustainability- Tools for the Future.- Chapter 10: Youth and Food Literacy: A Case Study of Food Education at the The Stop Community Food Centre.- Chapter 11: School Food and Nutrition Policies as Tools for Learning.- Chapter 12: Learning to Transgress: Creating Transformative Spaces in and beyond the Classroom.- Afterword.