You are about to embark on a gastronomical journey into an area of foodie culture that adds depth to the question “What’s for Dinner”?
Often, you’ll hear the phrase “you are what you eat” – but has anyone really ever stopped to think about how “you are what you WANT to eat” or even “the society that you choose is partly based on what you WANT to eat”?
Food is growing as a cultural phenomenon. Globalization has affected the proliferation of products, people and ideas around the world – and food is included in this globalized experience.
My course attempts to provide students with a platform through which they can begin having conversations about food and the meaning food brings to our society and ourselves.
I also want students to understand how food has been and is currently used as a vehicle for resistance, dominance and stability throughout the world.
When we teach students that inquiry and the inquiry process can be applied to any situation or experience – they become critical analyzers of the whole world of thoughts, emotions and experiences. Life becomes more complex, deep and meaningful when you have the ability to think upon yourself and the world with more connections and understandings.
2 replies on “A Teacher ‘Hungry’ For More”
A very interesting topic to explore, Tiffany, and MANY lessons that could be done on this!
Stars: Great catch phrase up at the top of this home page, “A teacher ‘hungry’ for more”. This helps draw into the website! You could maybe even adapt this and use it for students when introducing the topic. 🙂
The Prezi for your topic exploration was also catchy.
Your ideas to discuss tacos and pizza in lesson 1, as well as for students to create a new food guide as a culminating project will work well and really relate to students I think.
Your incorporation of technology in the lesson will also help draw students in.
Wish: I would like to see MORE lessons and a unit plan, as the lesson provided was very interesting!
Question: Could you/do you plan on discussing fresh food/home cooked meals vs. fast food and the culture surrounding that?
You have inspired me to create a project regarding food for potentially some health classes. 🙂
Hello Tiffany,
It is very informative and interseting. I loved your approach to spark curiosity among students to delve deeper in the concept of food by associating it with how we nurture to our nature which includes our social cultures, identies and influences our food choices. undoubtedly, whenever we talk about diversity, equality and equity, topic of food is marginalised despite its dominance in power structure.
It is admirable that how you are anticipating “student conversations” to trigger those important questions which are the foundation of this inquiry project, using “padlet” activity as a way to indulge students and form personal connections with the topic, to encourage them to think upon role of food in society, in their lives and discuss it in the form stories by sharing family histories of food. I can see your efforts to make it interdisciplinary, inclusive and universal by including history, social studies- Geography, food and technology by using various online resources and activities.
However, multicultural groups can be selected for group activities, which would help to give them exposure of other cultures and their food choices. On the contrary, I really enjoyed the presentation, doing the activity to reflect on my food habits and how the change in country (home country to Canada) has influenced my food choices.
I would love to know more about this project and how would you conclude it.