INTERNATIONAL ADULT EDUCATOR

Prepared byAli

Dr. Jennifer Sumner

An assistant professor in the Adult Education and Community Development Program at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto

Introduction to Adult Education Special Topics ( The Pedagogy of Food )

Adult Education for Sustainability

Dr. Sumner

She is the Director of Certificate Program in Adult Education for Sustainability

She is a Consulting Editor in the Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education

Dr. Sumner Research Interests

Adult education, adult and lifelong learning, critical pedagogy and knowledge production

Sustainability Globalization Rural communities/rural women Organic agriculture Food and sustainable food systems The civil commons and the social

economy

Dr. Sumner’s Books

Critical Perspectives in Food Studies. Toronto: Oxford University Press. (2012)

Sustainability and the Civil Commons: Rural Communities in the Age of Globalization. University of Toronto Press. (2005)

Dr. Sumner’s Articles

Sumner, Jennifer. 2011. “Serving Social Justice: The Role of the Commons in Sustainable Food Systems.” Studies in Social Justice, Vol. 5, Issue 1, pp. 63-75.

“Putting Culture Back into Agriculture: Civic Engagement, Community and the Celebration of Local Food.” International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, Vol. 8, Nos. 1&2, pp. 54-61

Sumner, Jennifer. 2008. “Eating as a Pedagogical Act: Food as a Catalyst for Adult Education for Sustainability.” Kursiv - Journal fuer politische Bildung, Vol. 4, pp. 23-37

Mair, Heather, Jennifer Sumner and Leahora Rotteau. 2008. “The Politics of Eating: Food Practices as Critically Reflective Leisure.” Leisure/Loisir, Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 379-405.

Sumner, Jennifer. 1999. “Global Vision or Corporate Nightmare? The Privatization of Adult Education in the New Millennium.” The Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education. Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 73-85.

Dr. Sumner and Adult Education

Dr. Sumner sees adult education as an important venue to profess alternative values over those imposed on us by the corporate world and corporate globalization.

The goal is to build a vibrant and healthy civic society

ReferencesAdult Education Counseling Psychology. (n.d.). Jennifer Sumner, Ph.D. (Guelph).Summer, J. (2011). Serving Social Justice: The Role of the Commons in Sustainable Food Systems. Studies in Social Justice, 5(1), 63–75Sumner, J. (n.d.). LIVING IN THE AGE OF EXCLUSION: THE IMPACT OF CORPORATE GLOBALIZATION ON RURAL COMMUNITIES (Rural extension studies). University of Guelph, Guelph.Imagine,john lenon [Web]. (2010). Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=OC2waxMJ_5Y

Imagine

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