Incorporating Cultures' Role in the Food and Agricultural Sciences
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| Rating | : | 4.40 (763 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0128039558 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 334 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-21 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Missed communication, failed projects and unrealistic goals are daily realities. Incorporating Cultures' Role in the Food and Agricultural Sciences addresses the practical needs of the professors, administrators and students who often face challenges of working together with Indigenous peoples with whom they have no prior experience. This book is replete with stories, examples and peer-refereed journal articles to help build awareness. This text is a guide for anyone working in the food or agriculture disciplines or industries, particularly for those working with people of a culture different from one’s own. These stories, examples and articles from multiple voices are placed over a basic underlying framework that is summed up in the title of the book itself.Provides compelling, well-referenced practical ways to understand the cultural component of behavior related to food and agricultureExplores behavior in setting policy, developing curricula, interacting with communities and in making choices as a consumerConnects the dots between food deserts, the disgust factor and the world’s grand challengesIncludes les
Dunkel has worked with subsistence farmers in Asia, Africa, and Native American reservations for the past 33 years. Dunkel has initiated a pedagogy for food and agricultural sciences, the Expansive Collaborative Model, which she implemented in 2000 and taught every semester since. Cultural aspects of food have been the topic of many TV appearances by Dunkel including PBS Evening News, Discovery Channel World of Wonder as well as radio interviews throughout the US, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Dunkel has helped faculty adap
Dunkel has helped faculty adapt this pedagogy in several colleges at MSU and in other land grant institutions including a tribal college, and at a private urban university. Dunkel has worked with subsistence farmers in Asia, Africa, and Native American reservations for the past 33 years. Dunkel has initiate