Fallow lands of plenty : public schools as leaders in rural food system relocalization / Eric Klein.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Klein, Eric A., author.

Series:

Transforming education for the future.

Transforming education for the future

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Rural--Appalachian Region, Southern--Case studies.

Education, Rural.

Place-based education--Appalachian Region, Southern--Case studies.

Place-based education.

Food supply--Appalachian Region, Southern--Case studies.

Food supply.

Local foods--Appalachian Region, Southern--Case studies.

Local foods.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Charlotte, North Carolina : Information Age Publishing Inc., [2023]

Summary:

"Can public schools feed themselves? That deceptively simple question is like a fingernail picking at a fray in the fabric of 21st century public education. Fallow Lands of Plenty chronicles one high school's attempt to feed itself and, in doing so, unravels the fabric of neoliberal education, exposes its logics of dependence and control, and begins to weave a new tapestry of education for community cooperation and resilience. Set during the ongoing transition between post-industrial globalization and the community structures that are to come, this rich narrative moves from furrows of Appalachian red clay soil, to the mountaintop homesteads of elder seed savers, to the conveyor belts of sterilized food sorting machines, and, finally, to a school's cafeteria on the day that 250 portions of student-grown sweet potatoes were served. Along the way, Fallow Lands centers knowledges of place as well as the literal and metaphorical seeds of relocalized food and education systems. Critical and theoretically informed, the text disobeys the values, purpose and canon of public education and proposes a fledgling pedagogy to address the challenges of the coming age"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Calf deep in red clay

Questions at the intersection of the education and food systems

Organization of volume

Making new roads at the intersection of the food and public education systems

The long view on 21st century American education

Setting

Bailey County

Sternhill Farm

Highland High School

Highland High School's cafeteria

Participants

Student-grown food participants

The seeds saver of Highland High School

The storyteller and his positionalities

Reflexive reflections on student seed saver recruitment

Reflexive reflections on recruiting community seed savers

The collective forgetting

seeds that remember

The fading agricultural traditions of Bailey County

21st Century agricultural education

Seeds that forget

The actions we took

Heritages of action

Horses pulling in different directions

Local food systems and food sovereignty

Teaching and learning how to grow our own food

Student-grown food is not farm to school

Analysis

Comment on farm to cafeteria success

System (mis)(re)alignment

Elder knowledge versus school knowledge

Appreciation and values in the cafeteria

Embedded agency

Food as a community connector

Going forward

Summary of key findings

Epistemic loss

Community connection

Commodity versus community

Methodological consideration

Shifting contexts

Relocalization pedagogy

Climate change science

Towards a pedagogy of relocalization

Closing thoughts.

Notes:

Ed. D. Appalachian State University 2020

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-87302-94-2

OCLC:

1385455839