Cultivating an Equitable, Just, and Compassionate Food Systems Pedagogy

Early food systems planning pedagogy was offered through studio or special topics course formats. This section of the book reflects upon those pedagogical origins and traces how academics mapped the way they taught about the food system onto the traditional methods and processes that planning students learn. Two of the chapters, however, chart a bolder way forward for food systems planning pedagogy that revolves around equitable community engagement and racial justice. This new justice-oriented, equitable engagement approach requires planning pedagogy to confront the thornier aspects of planning for the food system, by explicitly recognizing the power dynamics, systems of oppression, and injustices that planning has created and perpetuated.