While EATucation aims to have a positive impact through its food literacy program, it's crucial to be aware of and address any unintended negative consequences that can arise from well-intentioned initiatives. EATucation addresses these potential risks alongside the need to identify and manage trade-offs between competing demands.
To address these risks, EATucation conducts comprehensive impact assessments to identify potential trade-offs among social, environmental, cultural, and financial dimensions. Mitigation strategies are then developed to address identified trade-offs. EATucation's commitment to a multi-generational impact is underscored by our strategic management of resources for short, medium, and long-term goals.
Some initial potential risks that have been identified and have mitigation strategies in place are exacerbating existing inequalities, an overly-Eurocentric approach to food education, overlooking the socio-economic nature of food, a deterministic and prescriptive framing of diet, the potential for negatively impacting the development of body image in young people, food-related mental health challenges, the impact of media on food narratives, improper framing of the risks and opportunities posed by climate change that can lead to a defeatist response or cause climate anxiety, excessive screen time at school, the pressures teachers face in delivering a crowded curriculum, and the risk of creating an educational program that lacks a balance between conceptual underpinnings, teaching content, and learner competencies leading to a disconnected epistemological and pedagogical framework.
By proactively identifying and addressing potential trade-offs and risks, EATucation fine-tunes our program to maximize positive impacts while minimizing any unintended consequences.
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