Education for Change |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Mark?WinneEmail author |
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Institution: | (1) Mark Winne Associates, 41 Arroyo Hondo Trail, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87508, USA |
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Abstract: | The author uses two publications, Fighting Poverty in the US and Europe (Alesina and Glaeser) and Poetry magazine, to underscore the important role that educational institutions play in developing a person’s political philosophy and imagination. European nations, for instance, have better funded social welfare programs than the US because their system of public education incorporates more liberal or left-leaning teachings into their standard curricula. The author sees implications for a more intentional approach to education in the US for those who are interested in changing the food system. If American educational institutions viewed their role as producing food competent citizens, he argues, then we would be more successful in addressing obesity, promoting a more sustainable food system, and even reducing poverty. Food system activists, dieticians and nutritionists, parents, and elected officials should take a more aggressive position with educational institutions to develop programs, services, and curricula capable of achieving these ends. |
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Keywords: | education farm-to-school food and nutrition education food system school nutrition |
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