Workshop: 'Food for Thought': Empowering and Enabling Meaningful, Enjoyable, Inclusive Action on the Goals
Ms. Kirsten Johnson Leask, RCE Scotland
11th Global RCE Conference
7-9 December, 2018
Cebu, the Philippines
3. lfsscotland.org
Workshop Overview
Part A: Setting the Scene
1. About this workshop
2. A quality education
3. Education in Scotland
3. Sustainability and Scottish education
4. Embedding sustainability: the challenge
5. Embedding sustainability: meeting the challenge
Part B: Soil to Plate learning
Part C: Discussion
6. Objectives
• To examine what constitutes a ‘quality education’.
• To explore the challenges of integrating sustainability across learning.
• To participate in a practical and discussion-based learning journey
centred around the theme of food.
8. A global goal
Ensure inclusive and quality education for
all and promote lifelong learning.
4.7 “By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the
knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable
development, including, among others, through
education for sustainable development and
sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality,
promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence,
global citizenship and appreciation of cultural
diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable
development.”
9. What does it look like in practice?
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Ensure inclusive and quality education for
all and promote lifelong learning.
4.7 “By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the
knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable
development, including, among others, through
education for sustainable development and
sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality,
promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence,
global citizenship and appreciation of cultural
diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable
development.”
10. A preparation for life
• Meaningful
• Relevant
• Place-based
• Learner-centric
• Interdisciplinary
• Inclusive
• Transformative
• Enjoyable
• Empowering
• Life-long
• Beyond the school setting
• Engages heads – hands – hearts.
• Knowledge
• Skills
• Values
• Attributes
11. Beyond the school gates
Holistic…
Affects
Is effected
by
Global
National
Community
Setting
Individual
14. Structure
• Coherent learning from 3-18
• Delivered through Four Contexts:
• To create:
Curriculum areas and
subjects
Interdisciplinary learning
Ethos and life of the
setting
Opportunities for
personal achievement
• Effective contributors
• Successful learners
• Responsible citizens
• Confident individuals
16. 4. Building on strong foundations
• An entitlement for all learners, and a
whole-setting approach.
• Embedded in whole-school self-evaluation.
• Central to Professional Standards for
teachers.
• Woven throughout the Scottish curriculum.
17. At the heart of our national vision
• Mirrored in the Scottish Government’s
National Performance Framework.
19. Joining the dots
How can
we join
the dots?
Practitioner
confidence
and
‘agency’
Plethora of
policies and
strategies
Time
Conflicting
priorities
Lone
champion
‘Issue-
fatigue’
Conflicting
narratives
‘Finding the
hook’ for
learners
23. The food lens in a Scottish context
Food
National
Improvement
Framework
Curriculum
for Excellence
Developing
the Young
Workforce
HGIOS/
HGIOELC
Getting it
Right for
Every Child
Learning for
Sustainability
27. What is ‘Soil to Plate’ learning?
1. Learning
where food
comes from
2. Growing/
rearing my
own food
3. Preparing
my own food
4. Sharing and
celebrating
my food
Practical:
• Skills
• Knowledge
• Values
• Attributes
28. What is ‘Soil to Plate’ learning?
1. Learning where
food comes from
2.
Growing/rearing
my own food
3. Preparing my
own food
4. Sharing and
celebrating my
food
Practical:
• Skills
• Knowledge
• Values
• Attributes
29. What is ‘Soil to Plate’ learning?
1. Learning where
food comes from
2.
Growing/rearing
my own food
3. Preparing my
own food
4. Sharing and
celebrating my
food
Understanding global
food systems
Understanding how
my food gets to me
Creating confident
consumers
Food culture past,
present, near and far
Wider:
• Skills
• Knowledge
• Values
• Attributes
30. 1. Understanding global food systems
“The first supermarket supposedly
appeared on the (American) landscape
in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until
then, where was all the food? Dear folks,
the food was in homes, gardens, local
fields, and forests. It was near kitchens,
near tables, near bedsides. It was in the
pantry, the cellar, the back yard.”
Joel Salatin
31. 2. Understanding how my food gets to me
“We live not by the jingling of
our coin, but the fullness of our
harvests.”
Patrick Geddes
32. 3. Creating confident consumers
“Health inequalities are the biggest issue facing
Scotland just now, because not only are health
inequalities a problem but health inequalities
are really a manifestation of social inequality.
Social complexity – social disintegration –
drives things like criminality, it drives things like
poor educational attainment, it drives a whole
range of things that we would want to see
different in Scotland. The more attention we
can get paid to the drivers of that situation, the
better.” Sir Harry Burns, former Chief Medical Officer for Scotland
33. 4. Food culture: past, present, near and far.
“Laughter is brightest where food
is best.”
Irish proverb
