 | Jennifer Sumner phone: (416) 978-0784 email: jsumner@oise.utoronto.ca email: jennifer.sumner@utoronto.ca Department: Leadership, Higher and Adult Education | |
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Academic History Dr. Sumner is a Lecturer in the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto. She is also the Director of the Certificate Program in Adult Education for Sustainability. Research Overview Dr. Sumner's research interests include: 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 Teaching Overview AEC1100 Introduction to Adult Education AEC1131 Special Topics – The Pedagogy of Food AEC1131 Special Topics – Environmental Adult Education AEC1193 Adult Education for Sustainability Professional Activities Consulting Editor, Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education Representative Publications Books Koc, Mustafa, Jennifer Sumner and Tony Winson (eds.). 2013. Critical Perspectives in Food Studies. Toronto: Oxford University Press. Sumner, Jennifer. 2007/2005. Sustainability and the Civil Commons: Rural Communities in the Age of Globalization. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Articles in Refereed Journals Sumner, Jennifer. 2012. “Dining on the Social Economy: Challenges and Opportunities for Local, Sustainable Food Policy in a Global Context.” Canadian Review of Social Policy. 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. Sumner, Jennifer and Sophie Llewelyn. 2011. “Organic Solutions? Gender and Organic Farming in the Age of Industrial Agriculture.” Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, Vol. 22, Number 1, pp. 100-118. Chapters in Books Sumner, Jennifer. 2013 (forthcoming). “Adult Education and Food: Eating as Praxis.” In Tom Nesbit, Susan Brigham, Tara Gibb and Nancy Taber (eds.), Contexts of Adult Education: Canadian Perspectives, Thompson Educational Publishing Inc. Research Grants and Contracts2010 Social Business and Marginalized Social Groups (FoodShare Project) Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council 2010 Developing Ontario’s Local Organic Food Co-op System Ontario Co-operative Association 2009 Best Environmental Practices of Co-operatives in Canada. Canadian Co-operative Association 2008 Building Bridges: How Organic Agriculture Can Strengthen the Relationships Between Rural and Urban Communities. Organic Agriculture Centre of Canada 2006 The Agricultural Co-operative Sector in Ontario Ontario Co-operative Association 2005 Organic Farmers and the Social Economy SSHRC Social Economy Suite, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Other Information Annual Conference for Social Research in Organic Agriculture http://www.oacc.info/ResearchDatabase/res_socsci_welcome.asp |
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