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The climate emergency and eating insects: Food for thought

Jones, Verity

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Verity Jones Verity6.Jones@uwe.ac.uk
Associate Professor of Education



Abstract

The children in our classrooms are bombarded with doom and gloom stories about the state of the world: food poverty, war, carbon emissions, water shortages… . Fellow geographers, David Hicks (2018) and Hilary Whitehouse (2018), remind us that we should not dwell on these negative stories as young people can feel a sense of despair, and powerlessness in the face of global political landscapes. In saying that, we should also not ignore them. Instead, we need to embrace pedagogies that will support young people to feel empowered to act as global citizens and begin to make steps to creating the future they want. We need to deliver what Hicks (2014) refers to as a geography of hope; one in which crises are not just reported in our classrooms, but carefully planned pedagogies are used that will support the possibility of behaviour change at a local level in order to build global understandings and young people’s agency for long term sustainable stewardship. This article looks at a 4 stage approach to this.

Citation

Jones, V. (in press). The climate emergency and eating insects: Food for thought. Primary Geography,

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jan 6, 2020
Deposit Date Jan 9, 2020
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Print ISSN 0956-277X
Publisher Geographical Association
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Keywords edible insects, climate, diet
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/5036684
Publisher URL https://www.geography.org.uk/Journals

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