IDS Senior Seminar translation assignment
IDS students pursuing 4-year and honours degrees take a final, integrative seminar course to reflect on their learning and to think ahead to challenges they can expect in this field after graduation. The professor, Dr. Ruth Rempel, asked students in the 2014 Senior Seminar class to work on projects that ‘translated’ something they had learned into a form useful in a non-university setting. The assignment was inspired by Michael Woolcock’s suggestion that people working in international development require the skills of detectives, diplomats, and translators.
Students chose a concept or issue to rework in a creative way from a special lecture series that Menno Simons College sponsored in 2013-14, “How we Grow, Share and Eat: Moving Toward Just and Sustainable Food & Farming Systems.”
Halal and Haram Food Translation Assignment
One group created a video to inspired dialogue between Muslim newcomers to the province and advocates for local, sustainable eating.
Several groups created materials that middle school teachers in Manitoba could use in the classroom.
Game of Seeds
"Game of Seeds" teaches grade 7 students about seed sovereignty and food security.
By teaching youth that seeds are the origin of our food system, as well as a life source, it provides them with future knowledge that will be beneficial into their adult lives and also as future consumers.
It is also at a period in their school education where they are beginning to learn more about their global community, how to be a global citizen, and the ethical debates of these two concepts.
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The Game of Life
"The Game of Life" was designed to bring to light some of the food security issues that many of the world's population currently struggle with. Although the family you will play in the game is fictitious, the issues and situations they deal with are very real.
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Click here to download "The Game of Life" rules
Faculty: In Their Own Words
Karen Ridd, Teaching Associate Professor, Conflict Resolution Studies
Dr. Jonathan Sears, Associate Professor of International Development Studies
Dr. Jodi Dueck-Read, Assistant Professor of Conflict Resolution Studies
Dr. Jerry Buckland, Professor of International Development Studies
