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A sour taste in your mouth: consumer privileges and the socio-ecological imperatives of chocolate as pedagogy

Manteaw, B.; (2021) A sour taste in your mouth: consumer privileges and the socio-ecological imperatives of chocolate as pedagogy. International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning , 13 (2) pp. 109-121. 10.14324/IJDEGL.13.2.04. Green open access

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Abstract

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.

Type: Article
Title: A sour taste in your mouth: consumer privileges and the socio-ecological imperatives of chocolate as pedagogy
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.14324/IJDEGL.13.2.04
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.14324/IJDEGL.13.2.04
Language: English
Additional information: © 2021, Bob Manteaw. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Keywords: global education, chocolate, sustainability, consumption, reflective learning
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10142993
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