An Experiment in Changing Ourselves and the World Through Pedagogy

Alison Rigg; Leonardo Faedo; Lucy Aphramor

doi:10.32920/jcd.v8i1.2284

An Experiment in Changing Ourselves and the World Through Pedagogy

Alison Rigg
, Leonardo Faedo
, Lucy Aphramor

Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience

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Abstract

In this paper, we explore how pedagogy conveys values and enacts ideologies, influencing what can be known, what is inherently cast as ir/relevant, and who is deemed a credible knowledge-bearer, by reflecting on a pedagogical intervention with a facilitator (Lucy) and two learners (Alison and Leo). The paper focuses on how teaching style can expose shortcomings in dominant conceptualizations of nutrition and health and knowledge-creation processes to catalyze new, liberatory understandings. We suggest that even a one-off 60-minute intervention using a liberatory pedagogy can have a meaningful impact on what is known and that this disruption can have, as here, an enduring impact. Findings are broadly relevant across (and beyond) nutrition and dietetics teaching, research, practice, activism and policy

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	7-23
Number of pages	17
Journal	Journal of Critical Dietetics
Volume	8
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.32920/jcd.v8i1.2284
Publication status	Published - 27 May 2025

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UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
SDG 4 Quality Education
SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production

Keywords

nutrition
pedagogy
coloniality
dietetics
public health
liberation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Social Sciences(all)
Psychology(all)
Environmental Science(all)

Themes

Health and Community Care
Societal and Cultural Resilience

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