Abstract

My Independent Study takes a dive into and around the idea of an over-industrialization of modern-day society. The first chapter introduces certain socioeconomic contexts and political dynamics needed to incorporate greater values-in-sustainability as an infrastructural social project. From within this scope of perception, it becomes necessary to identify commitments made to the decentralization of standardized curricula, so that these relationships might oscillate reciprocally, cooperating between ‘Dynamic-Education’ and Sustainable-Agriculture, in society. To conduct mass political disagreement effectively, the promotion of social, economic, and environmental conditions must be affected in an active proliferation of all potential stages to a ‘new’ contemporary development.

As it stands, current frameworks of social and environmental reproduction are typically attained to various conditions of social, cultural, and interpersonal ‘strategic awareness,’ of the already functioning systems at play, excluding the promotion of agroecological ideas from common curriculum. This research paper then moves into the second chapter, emerging from themes such as the compartmentalization of major infrastructure, and the standardization of various modes of education. This chapter then takes an Action-Based Research approach, to better understand student-engagement and skills-development, as determined through the results of a 5-week experiential-learning workshop, conducted in partnership to Akron Cooperative Farms in Akron, Ohio, and a student group from the Akron Public Schools District in the North Hill Community. It was from this experience which determined a secondary investigation into community development, identifying the cues to the basis of my next chapter on achieving food sovereignty.

I use chapter 3 to further discuss the implications of community food sovereignty, from which I conducted a Thematic Review of literature. I use this research to better display the relationships between community-building, and radical devotions against predominant community infrastructure. In order to promote a new understanding of Eco-conscious lifestyles, it is first necessary to develop confidence in relevant and applicable techniques for the promotion of certain cultural ‘understandings’ within these communities, as to maintain practice, and familiarity with these principals. This research also contributes to a running understanding of many alternate ways of understanding the world, through plants, people, and culture. Subsequently, my research continues the investigation of critical, pedagogical community-evaluations, devised against authoritarian form of state independence, and authoritarian modes of production.

It is within chapter 4, that I then employ several accounts of the more holistic and theoretical grounded research, to that of literature into agrarian social movements, popular education, and community incentives to employ consistent acts community action and reflection, helping to synthesis of my discussion’s overarching argument of decentralization of contemporary lifestyles within the natural environment.

Advisor

Moreno, Carlos

Department

Environmental Studies

Disciplines

Agricultural Education | Cognitive Science | Critical and Cultural Studies | Mass Communication | Systems Science

Keywords

Food Sovereignty, Critical Pedagogies, Critical thinking, Community-Developmet, Experiential Learning

Publication Date

2023

Degree Granted

Bachelor of Arts

Document Type

Senior Independent Study Thesis

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