Am I My Planet's Keeper?: Dante, Ecosophy, and Children's Books

Lenz, Millicent

doi:10.1353/chq.0.0866

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“…Rosalind Coward (1996, p. 356) calls a 'green morality' is deeply rooted in children's culture, the result being that the onus is placed on children to be the catalysts for positive cultural change (Larsson, 2012;Lenz, 1994;Ballantyne et al, 2006). But Reid et al (2010) note "how the discourse of fear perpetuated by a variety of media in the lives of the younger generation often overwhelms the positive nexus of risk and hope…in children's environmental and place literatures" (p. 433).…”

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Cultivating common ground: the story of food (and the food in stories)

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Demystifying the story of food-from seed to store to stomach and how that cycle perpetuatesis a core tenet of food literacy and the central aim of this project. While exposure to environmental issues is critical to developing awareness, young learners are often burdened with crisis-laden facts about the state of our world and our food systems. Approaching difficult subjects using a narrative approach is one way to mitigate this burden. In this project, children's literature that centres on farms and food production/food gathering in settler and Indigenous contexts is used as a launching pad for discussions about food security. Food is an enduring theme in children's and young adult literature, and is particularly prevalent in narratives from the past, where food gathering and production are often rooted in their environmental contexts. These food narratives provide a pathway for young readers to critically investigate contemporary environmental concerns from a safe space. This project investigates how children's literature can be used as part of a critical food pedagogy to enhance the food literacy of young learners and encourage them to find common ground between the physical world and the worlds they read. In locating, analyzing, and experiencing food environments in literature via an affective, indirect approach, food literacy-which is foundational to the development of environmentally responsible behaviour-is enhanced.

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