ERIC Number: EJ1417341
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
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Food Deserts: How "Bringing Home the Bacon" Varies across Neighborhoods
Gavin Thomson; Jasmine T. Austin
Communication Teacher, v38 n2 p119-125 2024
Communication is used to engage and involve students in addressing food deserts and developing sustainable solutions. This application-based activity allows students to explain the reality of food deserts, map the food deserts in an area of interest, develop an intervention, and present their communication intervention to a nonprofit interlocutor. The goals of this unit activity are to guide students along the research process, argument formation, and advocacy-centered presentations for the marginalized group's access to affordable healthy food options. Courses: This activity is great for high school and college students in classes such as Public Speaking, Health Communication, Rhetoric of Critical Health, and Environmental Communication. Objectives: By the end of this activity, students will be able to: (1) visualize and communicate disparities within food deserts; (2) develop community-engaged and advocacy-oriented presentations; and (3) distinguish key factors differentiating food availability utilizing mapping techniques.
Descriptors: Food, Neighborhoods, Intervention, Geographic Regions, Communication Strategies, Communication (Thought Transfer), Social Characteristics, Regional Characteristics, Student Research, Research Training, Minority Groups, Persuasive Discourse, Advocacy, Social Science Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Texas (Austin); Texas (Houston); Texas
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