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This summer I invited a group of talented writers who specialize in food systems to participate in a special Media Education Lab publication called MediaEd Insights. Our issue is called, “What’s for Dinner? Food as an Ecomedia Literacy Inquiry.” Our first essay introduced food systems as a way to engage in ecological education and media interpretation. Today’s post is a curriculum review that analyzes how a course incorporates noodles as a design motif and captures students’ “evolving and sometimes tumultuous relationship with food, often rooted in their childhoods.”
It is a fascinating dive into how classrooms can be much more than sites of knowledge transfer. Life-centered pedagogy can resonate with students and guide them toward “hope and new ways to cope.” Food, “intrinsically tied to the sustainment of human life as well as philosophies and traditions of healthy living,” became a pathway to meaning-making with students.
