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23 August 2008, Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre
Program
The conference
program has now been finalised.
Themes and speakers Distinguished international
and national commentators will engage in two debates, one
about food and nutrition, and one about textiles and fashion,
defining and discussing sustainability issues, allowing
delegates the opportunity to explore the notions of consumption
and citizenship. The workshop program will build on the
debates to explore ethical issues in detail, as well as
address practical classroom implementation strategies in
the context of educational imperatives such as the new Queensland
Essential Learnings and Standards. A high-profile education
academic will contextualise the issues in terms of what
a 21st century curriculum might look like. The workshops
will include, for example:
Looking at food issues |
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Digging
deeper into the food basket—an exploration
into the key messages about sustainable food futures: ecological
impacts (e.g. organics, local products, food miles etc.),
food security (availability, accessibility and appropriateness),
and global impacts on others (fair trade etc.)—it
is about being healthy and being a good citizen.
Food Citizenship—what to look for,
where to go, how to be both a good consumer and a good citizen.
Food and nutrition education: When
less is more—a proposal for scoping and sequencing
food and nutrition education against the Essential Learnings
so that key issues, including sustainability, can be covered
in an intellectually rigorous yet practical way.
Cooking up a sustainable storm—a
practical demonstration of (classroom-friendly) ideas that
support healthy, sustainable food futures. |
| Looking at textiles issues |
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Slow fashion—an
exploration of ethical textiles from choice of fibre to
production, fashion and slow fashion.
Ethical textiles: What does it look like in the
classroom? —an exploration of ethical textiles
(fibre, production, fashion, fair trade, sweatshops, etc.)
through the modelling of classroom strategies.
Genesis Creations—designing and decorating
fabric with the environment (and classroom) in mind.
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| Looking at housing issues |
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Moving on from
turning off the tap—an examination of both
ecological and human impacts of current trends regarding
housing design, urban renewal and transport systems.
Reverse Garbage—a practical and creative
workshop that provides insight into issues of sustainability
through engagement in a range of creative activities using
salvaged materials.
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| Framing it in education |
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What do we value
in education?—an examination of an eco-citizen,
healthy citizen and democratic citizen as portrayed through
Education Queensland’s new Values Framework for all
government schools—what does it mean for home economics?
Let’s think: Raising the intellectual bar—specific
classroom strategies to build intellectual rigour into teaching,
learning and assessment, with reference to the Ways of Working
in the Essential Learnings.
Making it work—a look at some practical,
user-friendly strategies based on brain research to support
student learning.
Philosophical inquiry—an approach
and classroom strategies for developing skills of inquiry,
reasoning and critical analysis, modelled in the context
of sustainability.
Unpacking the Essential Learnings and Standards
Descriptors—an unpacking to show the structure,
intent and how to use the Queensland Essential Learnings
and Standards Descriptors, and what this means for home
economics.
Criteria and standards descriptors—Let’s
do it—a hands-on workshop of ‘how to do it’
when it comes to writing task specific criteria and standards
descriptors that align with the Essential Learnings and
Standards.
Essential Learnings and Standards through a sustainability
lens—how to plan from the Essential Learnings
and Standards, using sustainability and citizenship issues
in the home economics classroom as a model.
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Speakers
Dr Martin Caraher |

Martin is Reader in food and health policy at the Department
of Health Management and Food Policy at City University,
London. He originally trained as an environmental health
officer in Dublin. After working in the north west of
Ireland he developed an interest in the public health
and health promotion aspects of the work. He completed
his masters and doctorate in London, and since 1990 he
has been working with Professor Tim Lang on aspects of
food policy. Martin is known to many home economics professionals
following his inspiring contribution to the 2005 national
HEIA conference in Tasmania: Sustainability and home
economics: The choice is ours.
Martin has worked extensively on issues related to food
poverty, cooking skills, local sustainable food supplies,
the role of markets and co-ops in promoting health, farmers
markets, food deserts and food access, retail concentration
and globalisation. Current research interests include:
• The role of local food projects in promoting health
• Local area access to food in London with work
in the boroughs of Hackney and Islington
• Cooking skills among young people and the changing
nature of food skills and the culinary transition
• The role of food markets in promoting health and
wellbeing
• Farmers markets and new selling spaces.
Recent work has focused on the impact of food advertising
on children’s food choices and the impact of advertising
regulation. In addition he has been working in schools,
including work for the UK Department of Health, for the
World Health Organization (Europe) on school feeding programmes
in Latvia, and for the World Bank on school food in Lesotho.
He has been in contact with colleagues in Australia in
the Coalition on Food Advertising to Children, sharing
ideas and resources. His interests in sustainability come
from the perspective of local food chains and the attempts
by social enterprises to build sustainability into their
work.
Martin has contributed to books on public health and health
promotion, including a chapter on international public
health in the Oxford Handbook of Public Health. Together
with colleagues he has worked in Australia, Portugal,
France, the US and Canada.
Martin sits on the London Food Board which advises the
Mayor on food in London and the South East Food and Public
Health Group. He is also an Associate Member of the National
Heart Forum. He also advises and reviews materials and
plans for a range of local and statutory organisations
dealing with food. He chaired the National Primary Care
Team Community Food Access programme. He regularly appears
on TV and radio in relation to food issues.
Some relevant publications
Caraher, M., Dixon, P., Lang, T. and Carr-Hill, R. (1998).
Barriers to accessing healthy foods: differentials by
gender, social class, income and mode of transport. Health
Education Journal, 57 (3), 191–201.
Caraher, M., Lang, T., Dixon, P. and Carr-Hill, R. (1999).
The state of cooking in England: The relationship of cooking
skills to food choice. British Food Journal, 101 (8),
590–609.
Caraher, M., Lang, T. and Dixon, P. (2000). The influence
of TV and celebrity chefs on public attitudes and behaviour
among the English public. Association for the Study of
Food in Society Journal. 4 (1), 27–46.
Robinson, N., Caraher, M. and Lang, T. (2000). Access
to shops; the views of low income shoppers Health Education
Journal, 59 (2), 121–136.
Lang, T. and Caraher, M. (2001). Is there a culinary skills
transition? Data and debate from the UK about changes
in cooking culture. Journal of the Home Economics Institute
of Australia, 8 (2), 2–14
Barling, D., Lang, T. and Caraher, M. (2002). Food, social
policy and the environment: Towards a new model. In M.
Cahill and T. Fitzpatrick (Eds) Environmental issues and
social welfare. Blackwell Publishing: Oxford.
Caraher, M., Baker, H. and Burns, M. (2004). Children's
views of cooking and food preparation. British Food Journal,
1 April 2004, 106 (4), 255–273.
Stead, M., Caraher, M., Wrieden, W., Longbottom, P., Valentine,
K. and Anderson, A. (2004). Confident, fearful and hopeless
cooks: Findings from the development of a food-skills
initiative British Food Journal, 1 April 2004, 106 (40),
274–287.
Caraher, M. and Cowburn, G. (2005). Taxing food: implications
for public health nutrition. Public Health Nutrition,
8 (8), 1242–1249.
Caraher, M. and Reynolds, J. (2005). Lessons for home
economics pedagogy and practice. Journal of the Home Economics
Institute of Australia, 12 (2), 2–15.
Caraher, M. and Landon, J. (2006). The impact of advertising
on food choice: The social context of advertising. In
R. Shepherd, & M. Ratts (Eds.), The psychology of
food choice (pp. 227–245). Wallingford, Oxfordshire:
CABI.
Caraher, M., Landon., J. and Dalmeny, K. (2006). TV advertising
and children: Lessons from policy development. Public
Health Nutrition, 9 (5), 596–605
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Sue Thomas
Sue
Thomas is a British-born fashion academic teaching at RMIT
University, Melbourne, Australia. She has taught at graduate
and postgraduate level in Aotearoa, New Zealand and in the
United Kingdom. Her qualifications are in fashion design,
textiles, education and film. Sue is currently studying
for a doctorate in ethics as relating to sustainability
in the fashion industry. Her current teaching subjects include:
fashion design, sustainability, ethics, global issues for
fashion and textiles, and fashion theory.
Her recent publications have included papers on inclusive
fashion design, the future(s) of wool, ethics and innovation,
‘green wool’, and social justice in fashion.
A listed RMIT media expert Sue enjoys making a broad contribution
to fashion and social justice issues in a wide range of
public forums including consultancy, public lectures and
radio commentaries, with regular contributions on ABC Radio
774 Overnights aired throughout Australia and to the world
via the web. Her most recent foray was on ABC National ‘By
Design’ discussing Empathy in Design with Alan Saunders.
In addition to being an experienced academic writer, her
work has appeared in a variety of publications including
Farming Times and WSA Performance & Sports Materials.
Sue’s interest in the fashion industry has taken her
to Paris, Barcelona, Hong Kong, New York and Toronto, leading
students and pursuing research into national identity in
fashion design. A member of the Educators for a Socially
Responsible Apparel Business (ESRAB) and the International
Textiles and Apparel Association (ITAA), she has presented
papers in Santa Fe, New York, Savannah and Portland and
is a member of a variety of committees.
Some relevant publications
Thomas, S. (2007). ‘Design Back-story: Empathy, witnessing,
reflection and the inclusive response’ in proceedings
of Include 07 Conference, Royal College of Arts, London
http://www.ektakta.com/include/files2/1_416.pdf
Thomas, S. (2006). ‘Fair go fashion – human
rights and fair trade in Australia’, in proceedings
of Un-Australia: the annual Conference of Cultural Studies
Association of Australasia, University of Canberra, Canberra
http://www.unaustralia.com/electronicpdf/Unsthomas.pdf
Thomas, S. & Klein, D. (2006). ‘Mr Incredible’s
New Suit or can wool ‘save’ our future(s)?’,
in proceedings of Wearable Futures: Hybrid Culture in the
Design and Development of Soft Technology Conference, University
of Wales, Newport, Wales, UK http://artschool.newport.ac.uk/smartclothes/wearablefutures_abstracts.html#thomas
Thomas, S. & Van Kopplen, A. (2005). ‘Fashion
Design: the other person, culture and environment’,
in proceedings of Include 05 Conference, Royal College of
Arts, London
http://www.hhc.rca.ac.uk/archive/hhrc/programmes/include/2005/proceedings/pdf/thomassue.pdf
Thomas, S. (2002). ‘We dream of green sheep’,
Wool, Technology & Sheep Breeding, Vol 50 no. 3, pp.
327-334, Wool Research Organisation of New Zealand http://sheepjournal.une.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2406&context=sheepjournal
Dr Geoffrey Annison
Deputy Chief Executive
Australian Food and Grocery Council
Dr Geoffrey Annison joined the Australian Food and Grocery
Council (AFGC) in October 2007. He has wide experience in
food regulation and innovation, having held a number of
senior technical and management roles in industry in Australia
and overseas, in academia, and in public policy.
His career has spanned a number of sectors including the
fast moving consumer goods sector with Goodman Fielder and
the AFGC, the rural sector with organisations such as Rhone
Poulenc based in Singapore and Australian Pork Ltd and AWB
Ltd in Australia. He has been an active research scientist
during time spent with Massey University in New Zealand
and the CSIRO Division of Human Nutrition in Adelaide. He
has an extensive knowledge of current industry issues, particularly
as they related to food, nutrition and human health.
Dr Annison has a Bachelor of Science in Food Technology
(Hons) and a PhD. in Microbiology from the University of
New South Wales.
Dr Rosemary Stanton OAM is
well known to Queensland home economics professionals
for her
passion for sustainable food futures—in 2007 she
raised the concept of ‘from consumer to citizen’
at the HEIA(Q) 2007 conference. Rosemary is one of Australia's
best-known nutritionists and has an Order of Australia
Medal for her services to community health. A Visiting
Fellow in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of
New South Wales, Rosemary is a member of many advisory
committees and professional associations. She has authored
many scientific papers, 31 books on food and nutrition
and over 3,200 articles for magazines and newspapers.
Rosemary is widely recognised as a source of reliable
nutrition information free from commercial influence.
Her aim is to encourage healthier diets, with enjoyable
foods that create minimal environmental damage.
Dr Jenny Nayler is an educational
consultant and writer with extensive experience in a range
of educational
contexts. As well as tertiary teaching and research experience,
she has worked in education and social policy development,
taught in secondary schools and worked on major national
and state projects. All of this work has been underpinned
by a strong commitment to social justice with practical
support for schools’ design and implementation of
context-responsive curriculum, generative pedagogies and
assessment for learning. A major project for Jennifer
during 2008 has been working as the chief author on a
Queensland Studies Authority publication to support teachers’
engagement with the Queensland Curriculum, Assessment
and Reporting Framework.
Dominique Rizzo,
Chef and Presenter, is the founder and face of Pure Food
Cooking. Pure Food Cooking's focus and purpose is to generate
awareness about cooking with an emphasis on natural whole
foods and fresh organic produce, to improve health, balance
and life vitality. Dominique is also a celebrity chef involved
in the dynamic Ready Steady Cook series on Network 10. She
has appeared on Lifestyle Food, Great South East, as well
as being featured on Food Lover's Guide to Australia and
ABC Radio. Dominique possesses a passion for creative world
food, fuelled by her Sicilian heritage and a deep desire
to develop innovative cuisine using quality, safe, clean,
fresh produce. Dominique has 15 years experience as a Chef
and 7 years as Head Chef and business partner in the award
winning Mondo Organics restaurant in Brisbane's West End.
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