 | Jennifer Sumner Lecturer phone: (416) 978-0784 email: jennifer.sumner@utoronto.ca Department: Leadership, Higher and Adult Education | |
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Research Overview Dr. Sumner's research interests include: Adult education, adult and lifelong learning, critical pedagogy and knowledge production Food and sustainable food systems Sustainability Organic agriculture Globalization Rural communities/rural women The civil commons and the social economy Co-operatives Academic History Dr. Sumner teaches in the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto. She earned a BA from the University of Toronto, a Diploma in Agriculture from the University of Guelph and a PhD in Rural Studies from the University of Guelph. Teaching Overview LHA1197 The Pedagogy of Food LHA1122 Practicum in Adult Education and Community Development LHA1114 Commons, Community and Social Justice LHA1193 Adult Education for Sustainability Representative Publications Books Sumner, J. (ed.). 2016. Learning, Food and Sustainability: Sites for Resistance a Change. Palgrave/Macmillan. Koc, M., J. Sumner and A. Winson (eds.). 2012/2017. Critical Perspectives in Food Studies. Toronto: Oxford University Press. Mair, H. and J. Sumner (eds.). 2015. Leisure and Food. New York: Routledge. Sumner, J. 2007. Sustainability and the Civil Commons: Rural Communities in the Age of Globalization. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Articles in Refereed Journals Sumner, J., Tarhan, MD & McMurtry, JJ. (forthcomng). Eating in place: Mapping alternative food procurement in Canadian Indigenous communities. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Deveopment (Special issue on Indigenous food systems). Sumner, J. & Lapalme, H. 2019. The public plate in the transnational cty: Tensions amog food procurement, global trade and local legislation. Canadian Food Studies, 6(1), pp. 22-42. Sumner, J. 2018. Community-supported learning: Practicums, adult education and post-secondary institutions. Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 64(2), pp. 97-108. Sumner, J. 2016. Waging the struggle for healthy eating: food environments, dietary regimes and Brazil's dietary guidelines. Local Environment, 21(10), pp. 1230-1242. Sumner, J. and C. Wever. 2015. Cultivating alliances: the Local Organic Food Co-ops Network. Candian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research, 6(2), 65-79. Sumner, J. 2015. Reading the world: food literacy and the potential for food system transformation. Studies in the Education of Adults, 47(2), 9-22. Sumner, J. 2013. Food literacy and adult education: learning to read the world by eating. Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 25(2), 79-92. Sumner, J. 2013. Eating as if it really mattered: teaching The Pedagogy of Food in the age of globalization. Brock Education Journal – Special Issue: The Impact of Globalization for Adult Education and Higher Education, 22(2), 41-55. Chapters in Books Sumner, J. 2018. Sustainability as the civil commons: Laying the groundwork for sustainable agriculture. In D. Constance, M. Hatanaka and J. Konefal (Eds.), Contested sustainability discourses in agri-food systems. New York: Routledge, pp. 75-85. Sumner, J. 2017. Conceptualizing sustainable food systems. In Koc, M., J. Sumner and A. Winson (eds.). Critical Perspectives in Food Studies, 2nd Edition. Toronto: Oxford University Press, pp. 320-331. Sumner, J. 2016. Education for the commons. In Means, A.J., D.R. Ford and G.B. Slater (eds.). Educational Commons in Theory and Practice: Global Pedagogy and Politics. New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, pp. 189-207. Sumner, J. and C. Sanders. 2016. Taking the next steps toward envronmental sutainability: Implementing the Official Plan on Pelee Island. In L.K. Hallstrom, M.A. Beckie, G.T. Hvenegaard, K. Mundel (eds.), Sustainbility Planning and Collaboration in Rural Canada: Taking the Next Steps. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, pp. 199-215. Sumner, J. and C. Wever. 2016. Pedagogical Encounters: Critical Food Pedagogy and Transformative Learning in the School and Community. In C. Anderson, J. Brady and C. Levkoe (eds.), Conversations in Food Studies: Transgressing Boundaries through Critical Inquiry. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, pp. 322-341. Sumner, J. 2015. Ways of Knowing the World: The Role of Knowledge in the Food/Place Nexus. In K. Fitzpatrick and D. Willis (eds.), A Place-Based Perspective of Food in Society. Palgrave/Macmillan Publishers, pp. 83-102. Classens, M., McMurtry, JJ and Sumner, J. 2015. Doing Markets Differently: The Case of FoodShare Toronto's Good Food Markets. In J. Quarter, S. Ryan and A. Chan (eds.). Social Purpose Enterprises: Case Studies for Social Change. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 215-235. Sumner, J. 2015. Learning to Eat with Attitude: Critical Food Pedagoges. In E. Swan and R. Flowers (eds.), Food Pedagogies. London: Ashgate, pp. 201-214. Sumner, J. 2013. Adult Education and Food: Eating as Praxis. In T. Nesbit, S. Brigham, T. Gibb and N. Taber (eds.), Building on Crtical Traditons: Adult Education and Learning in Canada. Toronto: Thompsn Educational Publishing Inc. Research Grants and Contracts 2018 PI, Social Procurement Project SSHRC Partnership Development Grant 2017 PI, Social Procurement for Community Development SSHRC Institutional Grant 2015 PI, Public Procurement for a Local Sustainable Food System SSHRC Institutional Grant 2014 PI, Local Organic Food Co-ops Network SSHRC Institutional Grant 2010 Co- Investigator, Social Business and Marginalized Social Groups (FoodShare Project) Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council 2010 Developing Ontarios 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 Professional Activities Associate Editor, Canadian Food Studies |
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