Skip to main content
Home / GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, Volume 27, Number 1

Open Access Tackling Food System Challenges through Experiential Education: Criteria for Optimal Course Design

Download Article:

Authors: Grant, Michelle; Shreck, Aimee; Buchmann, Nina

Source: GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, Volume 27, Number 1, 2018, pp. 169-175(7)

Publisher: oekom verlag

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.27.1.13

This article is Open Access under the terms of the Creative Commons CC BY licence.

Educating students to find sustainable solutions to food system challenges is a task that spans disciplines and contexts. Our two-week World Food System Summer School allows participants, specialists and stakeholders to learn from one another. We describe the conceptual framework for the course, elucidate the design criteria used and discuss challenges, aiming to support the development of education offerings in this space.

Keywords: design criteria; education for sustainable development; food systems; higher education; short courses; summer schools

Document Type: Research Article

Publication date: 01 January 2018

More about this publication?

  • GAIA is a peer-reviewed inter- and transdisciplinary journal for scientists and other interested parties concerned with the causes and analyses of environmental and sustainability problems and their solutions.

    Environmental problems cannot be solved by one academic discipline. The complex natures of these problems require cooperation across disciplinary boundaries. Since 1991, GAIA has offered a well-balanced and practice-oriented forum for transdisciplinary research. GAIA offers first-hand information on state of the art environmental research and on current solutions to environmental problems. Well-known editors, advisors, and authors work to ensure the high quality of the contributions found in GAIA and a unique transdisciplinary dialogue – in a comprehensible style.

    GAIA is an ISI-journal, listed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Science Citation Index and in Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences.

    All contributions undergo a double-blind peer review.

  • Editorial Board
  • Information for Authors
  • Subscribe to this Title
  • Ingenta Connect is not responsible for the content or availability of external websites

Share Content

  • Access Key
  • Free content
  • Partial Free content
  • New content
  • Open access content
  • Partial Open access content
  • Subscribed content
  • Partial Subscribed content
  • Free trial content