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ERIC Number: EJ1318740
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 13
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: EISSN-1756-5278
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A Sour Taste in Your Mouth: Consumer Privileges and the Socio-Ecological Imperatives of Chocolate as Pedagogy
Manteaw, Bob
International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, v13 n2 p109-121 2021
This article describes how I use autoethnography as a methodological approach to display the multiple layers of my consciousness as a critical global sustainability educator. I use writing to demonstrate how my reflective processes on my work with chocolate as pedagogy in schools facilitate an exploration of the philosophical and pedagogical underpinnings of what it means and what it takes to educate for sustainability and global awareness and in culturally diverse settings. My desire here is to share insights by writing, describing, examining and theorising my experiences of using chocolate as a pedagogical resource for global education and socio-ecological learning to university students. By using autoethnography, I take the position that writing is a way of knowing, as well as a method of self-discovery and analysis. My aim, therefore, is simple: to use autoethnography as a processual avenue to demonstrate how I used cocoa production in Ghana, and chocolate consumption around the world, to deepen understandings of larger issues around production and consumption, as well as the linkages between learning, society and sustainability. In doing so, I foreground my personal reflective experiences in using chocolate as a teaching resource. Those experiences are objectified as the focus of the research, and I become the subject of research.
UCL Press. University College London (UCL), Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK. email: uclpresspublishing@ucl.ac.uk; Web site: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/pages/international-journal-of-development-education-and-global-learning
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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