[{"text_idx": "#000000", "text": "AboutPolitics and PolicyPeople and PlacesCultureVoices"}, {"text_idx": "#000002", "text": "Addysg bwyd: cydweithio rhwng addysg uwch ac addysgwyr yn dod a\u0302 mewnwelediadau newydd \u2013 Food education: collaboration between higher education and educators brings new insights"}, {"text_idx": "#000005", "text": "Pan ddes i ar draws y syniad o Ganolfan Ranbarthol ar gyfer Arbenigedd addysg gynaliadwy \u2013 ac RCE \u2013 i Gymru yn 2008, roeddwn yn amheus iawn o\u2019r acronym diweddaraf. Roedd yn swnio mor fiwrocrataidd. Ond wedyn, clywais Julie Bromilow o\u2019r Ganolfan Dechnoleg Amgen yn siarad am RCE roedd hi wedi ymweld ag yn Japan, a dechreuodd y posibilrwydd o fod yn rhan o rwydwaith byd-eang er mwyn datrys problem fyd-eang apelio."}, {"text_idx": "#000006", "text": "Ar y pryd, roeddwn yn Swyddog Gwybodaeth yng Nghanolfan Organig Cymru yn Aberystwyth, yn trefnu i ysgolion ymweld a\u0302 ffermydd a phrydau ysgol wedi\u2019i gynhyrchu\u2019n lleol ynghyd a\u0302\u2019n nyletswyddau golygu arferol. Roedd yn rhoi boddhad, ond roeddwn yn dyheu am fod yn rhan o rywbeth mwy, i gymharu ein gwaith gyda beth roedd eraill yn ei wneud, a gweld pa mor bell gallwn fynd. Yn fwy na dim, roeddwn yn pendroni am beth yn union roedden i\u2019n ei wneud. Sut roedd ymweld a\u0302 ffermydd i fod i newid unrhyw beth? Pam roedd prosiectau prydau ysgol mor bwerus, tra roedd sefyll ar stondin mewn digwyddiad weithiau\u2019n gallu bod mor ddiflas?"}, {"text_idx": "#000007", "text": "Meddyliais efallai byddai\u2019r RCE yn gallu bod yn ffordd o ysgogi pethau. Felly neidiais ar y cyfle i ymuno gyda\u2019r is-grw\u0302p oedd yn edrych ar addysg bwyd, ynghyd a\u0302 Julie, Dr Jane Claricoates o ysgrifenyddiaeth yr RCE ym Mhrifysgol Abertawe a Dr David Skydomre o Brifysgol Glyndw\u0302r. Ein tasg gyntaf, yn 2011, oedd \u2018sgwennu papur pynciol, oedd yn archwilio beth allai \u2018addysg drawsnewidiol\u2019 olygu yng nghyd-destun bwyd gan dynnu ar ein profiadau perthnasol yn ogystal a\u0302\u2019r llenyddiaeth ymchwil."}, {"text_idx": "#000009", "text": "Yn dilyn hyn, er ein bod wedi atynnu ambell aelod newydd ac yn parhau i gyfarfod am flwyddyn neu ddwy, dechreuodd y grw\u0302p wasgaru. Roedd salwch a newid swyddi yn rhan o hyn, ac efallai bod yr RCE yn rhy ymylol i\u2019n swydd ddisgrifiadau amrywiol i gael y sylw roedd yn ei haeddu. Er hyn, daeth yn amlwg bod y cysyniad canolog o gydweithio rhwng addysg uwch ac ymarferwyr yn un gwydn iawn, fel ein cwestiwn am beth sy\u2019n gwneud addysg bwyd yn drawsnewidiol. Newidiodd y Grw\u0302p Bwyd i fod yn ymholiad oedd yn cael ei hystyried gan rwydwaith llac."}, {"text_idx": "#000010", "text": "Yn 2014, galluogodd cyllid o Raglen Datblygu Wledig Cymreig i Ganolfan Organig Cymru i symud hyn i lefel newydd gyda phrosiect ymchwil gweithredol o\u2019r enw Gwerthoedd Bwyd. Daeth hyn ac ymchwil o seicoleg gymdeithasol a\u2019i wneud yn berthnasol i addysg bwyd, a daeth yn amlwg ei fod yn ddull pwerus gan ddod a mewnwelediad newydd i nifer ohonom oedd yn gweithio yn addysg bwyd. Yn ddiweddarach daeth yn sail i Faniffesto Bwyd Cymru sy\u2019n cynnal y weledigaeth i\u2019r system fwyd Cymreig sydd wedi ei ddal ynghyd ar werthoedd o ofal, tegwch a chydraddoldeb."}, {"text_idx": "#000011", "text": "Roedd Gwerthoedd Bwyd yn enghraifft wych o ethos yr RCE, er nad oedd yn dechnegol yn rhan ohono. Roedd yn gydweithrediad rhwng addysg uwch, rhwng Dr Sophie Wynne-Jones a\u2019i chydweithwyr i ddechrau ym Mhrifysgol Aberystwyth ac yna, ym Mangor, a\u2019r gymdeithas ehangach, er enghraifft Canolfan Ymchwil Diddordeb Cyhoeddus, Canolfan Organig Cymru a nifer o sefydliadau anllywodraethol yn amrywio o Age Concern yng Ngwynedd i\u2019r Synagog Unedig Diwygiedig yng Nghaerdydd. Galluogodd cyfnewid cyfoethog ac ysbrydoledig rhwng academyddion ac ymarferwyr oedd yn fanteisiol i\u2019r ddwy garfan."}, {"text_idx": "#000013", "text": "Mae\u2019r Grw\u0302p Bwyd yn segur ar hyn o bryd, ond mae ei waith yn byw ymlaen, ac mae gymaint mwy gallwn ei wneud. Wrth i ysgolion Cymreig baratoi am ddiwygiad mawr o\u2019r cwricwlwm ac wrth i Ddeddf Llesiant a Chenedlaethau\u2019r Dyfodol ddechrau cymryd effaith, mae\u2019r cyfleoedd yn anferth. Gall RCE Cymru ar ei newydd wedd gynnig y cyfle ar gyfer rhagor o gydweithio ar addysg bwyd? Darllenwch ein blog a chysylltwch gyda Jane Powell."}, {"text_idx": "#000014", "text": "Staff a myfyrwyr yn trafod bwyd ym Mhrifysgol Aberystwyth \u2013 staff and students discussing food at Aberystwyth University"}, {"text_idx": "#000015", "text": "When I first came across the idea of a Regional Centre for Expertise for sustainability education \u2013 an RCE \u2013 for Wales, in 2008, I was sceptical about the latest acronym. It sounded so bureaucratic. But then I heard Julie Bromilow of the Centre for Alternative Technology talking about an RCE she\u2019d visited in Japan, and the possibility of being part of a global network to solve a global problem seemed very appealing."}, {"text_idx": "#000016", "text": "At the time, I was the Information Officer at Organic Centre Wales in Aberystwyth, organizing school visits to farms and locally sourced school meals alongside my regular editorial duties. It was rewarding, but I longed to be part of something bigger, to compare our work with what others were doing, and to see how far we could take it. Above all I wondered what exactly we were doing. How were farm visits supposed to change anything? Why were the school meal projects so powerful, while running a stand at an event could sometimes be very tedious?"}, {"text_idx": "#000017", "text": "Perhaps the RCE could be a way of shaking things up, I thought. So I jumped at the chance to join a subgroup that would look at food education, along with Julie, Dr Jane Claricoates from the RCE secretariat at Swansea University and Dr David Skydmore of Glyndw\u0302r University. Our first task, in 2011, was to write a topic paper, which explored what \u2018transformative education\u2019 might mean in the context of food and drew on our respective experiences as well as the research literature."}, {"text_idx": "#000020", "text": "In 2014 funding from the Welsh Rural Development Programme to Organic Centre Wales allowed us to take this to a new level with an action research project we called Food Values. This took research from social psychology and applied it to food education, and it turned out to be a powerful approach which brought fresh insights to many of us involved with food education. It later became the basis for the Wales Food Manifesto which holds a vision for a Welsh food system that is held together by shared values of care, fairness and equality."}, {"text_idx": "#000021", "text": "Food Values exemplified the ethos of the RCE, even if it wasn\u2019t technically part of it. It was a collaboration between higher education, in the shape of Dr Sophie Wynne-Jones and her colleagues first at Aberystwyth University, then Bangor, and the wider community, exemplified by the Public Interest Research Centre, Organic Centre Wales and a host of NGOs and individuals, from Age Concern in Gwynedd to the United Reform Synagogue in Cardiff. It enabled a very rich and inspiring exchange between academia and practitioners that benefited both sides."}, {"text_idx": "#000022", "text": "When you regularly teach groups and organise community events, as I do, it\u2019s easy to get burnt out and demotivated. The connection with researchers can bring a fresh perspective that allows us to go deeper into our practice, and to take more satisfaction from what we are doing well. For academics, I imagine, it must be rewarding to be involved in projects that have an immediate benefit and show theoretical principles at work in everyday life. And although we didn\u2019t manage to make any connections with the global RCE network, that would obviously add yet more value to the process."}, {"text_idx": "#000023", "text": "The Food Group is dormant now, but its work lives on, and there is so much more we could do. As Welsh schools prepare for a major reform of the curriculum and the Well-Being of Future Generations Act starts to take effect, the opportunities are huge. Could RCE Cymru in its new guise offer the opportunity for another round of collaboration on food education? Read our blog and get in touch with Jane Powell."}, {"text_idx": "#000025", "text": "Gweithiodd Jane Powell i Ganolfan Organig Cymru o 2000 hyd at 2015 ac erbyn hyn mae hi\u2019n ymgynghorydd addysg lawrydd ac ysgrifen wraig. Jane yw\u2019r cydlynydd yng Nghymru ar gyfer LEAF Education, ac aelod o Grw\u0302p Addysg Biosffer Dyfi, a golygydd Maniffesto Bwyd Cymru. Mae hi\u2019n byw yn ardal Aberystwyth ac yn rhan o brosiectau bwyd lleol gan gynnwys gardd yn y Brifysgol. Ei gwefan yw - Jane Powell worked for Organic Centre Wales from 2000 to 2015 and is now a freelance education consultant and writer. She is Wales coordinator for LEAF Education, a member of the Dyfi Biosphere Education Group, and editor of the Wales Food Manifesto. Based in Aberystwyth she is active in community food projects, including a garden at the university. Her website is ."}, {"text_idx": "#000026", "text": "Gravy is food \u2013 these days it seems to come by train... Everywhere I look I see taxpayer funded trains full of unsustainable sustainable gravy... What I don\u2019t see in Wales is much in the way of meat and potatoes! Much of it might as well just be poured down the drain. I\u2019m not holding my breath \u2013 just waiting for the next 5-Year Plan for Unsustainable Sustainable Gravy Production."}, {"text_idx": "#000027", "text": "Also within Politics and Policy"}, {"text_idx": "#000029", "text": "Wales leading the way on tough decisions"}, {"text_idx": "#000030", "text": "Levelling the playing field: A case for retrofit over demolition"}, {"text_idx": "#000031", "text": "Sign up to receive a daily welsh agenda article and our latest news and events"}, {"text_idx": "#000032", "text": "The IWA gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Books Council of Wales for the welsh agenda."}]