In this episode we talk with Valerie Trew, the Director at the University of Guelph Child Care and Learning Centre in Guelph, Ontario. Valerie is a Registered Early Childhood Educator with a Master of Arts in Leadership. She also teaches in the Bachelor of Applied Science program at the University of Guelph and Guelph-Humbe applying a lens of social and environmental justice to studies in policy, administration, and leadership.
Valerie views teaching from early learning to post-secondary as a political act and does so with a view to provoke radical social transformation towards a post-colonial world. She has spent 20 years working in children’s services through postsecondary education, regional government, early intervention, and early learning and child care.
In this episode we discuss:
Early childhood education
Whole-food, Plant-based nutrition for children
Valerie’s path to implementing a plant-based menu at the Guelph Child Care and Learning Centre
The importance of teaching children where our food comes from
Putting Indigenous outlooks in perspective
How coloniality and our food systems intersect
Socials:
Twitter
Linkedin
Studies and Resources:
Child Care Food Sustainability Report
Family-focused, plant-based recipes and cookbooks
Plant-based Pediatrician resources
Positive mealtime for child and parent
Veganism and Indigenous perspectives
Veganism and Mi’Kmaw teachings
Margaret Robinson - Indigenous veganism: YouTube lecture, Article
The Honorable Harvest - Robin Kimmerer
This Podcast was hosted and edited by Clinton Stamatovich.